Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Attitudes to SUVs and “slam door” rolling stock represent a paradox

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
But neutrality on this issue is wrong. It means abdicating the responsibility of a scientific
publication to weigh evidence and argument based on evidence. A very large accumulated …

The effectiveness of dedicated cycling facilities: perceived and objective risk

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - Injury prevention, 2011 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Lusk et al's paper1 indicates an important subtext regarding travel. Governments wish to
make personal mobility as widely available as possible; this inevitably entails promotion of …

Death on the roads: Perceived threat is important in road safety

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - BMJ, 2006 - bmj.com
However, sports utility vehicles (SUVs) differ in one important way from the engineering
features—seat belts, airbags, and antilock breaking systems, for example—that have often …

AUDITORY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ROAD-SAFETY: IMPLICATIONS FROM AFTEREFFECTS OF AUDITORY MOTION AND VISUAL MOTION

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - 2024 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Schwebel (1) raises the issue of how auditory processing might contribute to safe
negotiation of the roads by pedestrians. In particular, does the masking of relevant auditory …

SNAPPING SPEED: THE TOLERATION OF DANGER ON THE ROADS

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - 2024 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Mendivil et al's (1) excellent paper demonstrates the cost-benefits to be derived from
investment in speed cameras. It invokes that remarkable Achilles-heel accompanying mass …

COMPARING DEATHS DUE TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND ROAD CRASHES IN NOTHERN IRELAND

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - 2024 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Sosa and Bhatti (1) show that death rates arising from political violence exceed death rates
from road crashes in some localities of Afghanistan. In contrast, data from OECD countries …

GOOD NEWS: TWEEKS TO COMMUTING BEHAVIOUR MAY IMPROVE ACTIVITY-LEVELS

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - 2023 - bjsm.bmj.com
Ratzlaff (1) outlines broad categories in assessing societal activity-levels: occupational and
household. While the latter was traditionally the greater source of activity, particularly for …

IMPEDIMENTS TO THE PREVENTION OF TRAVEL-RELATED INJURY: SOCIETAL AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALISTIC

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - 2024 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
CONCLUSION: Hemenway offers a useful scheme for investigating injury prevention. I
argue here that-at least regarding travel-the problems are not simply to be understood by …

CYCLING: A GEAR TOO HIGH FOR MASS ACCEPTANCE?

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - 2024 - bjsm.bmj.com
Bauman et al (1) provide an appealing overview of the potential role of cycling in healthy
living. The successful and sustained promotion of cycling is well illustrated by the examples …

Inequalities in size and power across road users

TH Reinhardt-Rutland - Injury prevention, 2012 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
In this issue of Injury Prevention, Ackery et al1 show that a cyclist's risk in collisions with
motor vehicles increases with the size of the motor vehicle (see page 22). This evidence …