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Traffic Accident Management [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basham, Donald J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accidents, Traffic.
- Traffic accident investigation.
- Traffic safety.
- Accidents.
- Public Health.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Accidents.
- Public Health.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Accidents, Traffic.
- Local Subjects:
- Accidents, Traffic.
- Traffic accident investigation.
- Traffic safety.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 1979.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The management and investigation of traffic accidents are clearly and comprehensively explained in this book. The author stresses those aspects of the subject that will be of practical value to the reader charged with traffic accident management. Detailed information is presented on mental hearth for the investigator, accident scene priorities and hazards, victim rescue and evacuation, and identification of and interviews with participants and witnesses. The author also provides chapters on physical evidence, hit-and-run, determination of speed from skid marks, and accident reconstruction. Fat
- Contents:
- HALF TITLE: TRAFFIC ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT; TITLE PAGE: TRAFFIC ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1: WORDS, PHRASES, AND ABBREVIATIONS DEFINED; CHAPTER 2: MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR; CHAPTER 3: ACCIDENT SCENE PRIORITIES; CHAPTER 4: ACCIDENT SCENE HAZARDS; CHAPTER 5: ACCIDENT VICTIM RESCUE AND EVACUATION; CHAPTER 6: IDENTIFYING AND INTERVIEWING PARTICIPANTS AND WITNESSES; CHAPTER 7: GATHERING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE; CHAPTER 8: HIT-AND-RUN; CHAPTER 9: DETERMINING SPEED FROM SKIDMARKS; CHAPTER 10: ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION
- CHAPTER 11: FATAL ACCIDENTSCHAPTER 12: ALCOHOL OR DRUGS INVOLVED; CHAPTER 13: ORGANIZING A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT REPORT; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-398-08906-X
- OCLC:
- 841916764
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