From USA Today:
Ford Motor-funded research at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest universities is near completion on mathematical models that measure how crash forces affect pregnant women and fetuses.
States are not required to report fetal deaths in data sent to the federal fatal accident system -- some do, and some don't. But researcher Stefan Duma of Virginia Tech says reliable studies show from 300 to 1,000 fetal deaths because of car accidents each year.
Duma says the fatality rate of unborn babies in crashes is about four times the rate for infants to 4-year-olds....
Duma says the mathematical models are a step in the process and that the auto industry could be 15 years away from new technology to help protect fetuses.
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[HT: RNCLife]
