Disease relevance of Off-Road Motor Vehicles

• Non-minor (AIS > 1) head injuries were far less common than in motorcycling, and many fast driving young snowmobile riders seem to use helmets regardless of a law [1].

High impact information on Off-Road Motor Vehicles

• A strong, midline posterior response at approximately 100 ms was observed in children, which was earlier and somewhat stronger to faces than to motorbikes; in adults the signal at this latency was weak [2].
• Using these data, a mobile source emissions inventory based on fuel use for Yellowstone National Park shows that snowmobiles account for 27% of the annual emissions of carbon monoxide and 77% of annual emissions of hydrocarbons using an equivalent best estimate for the summer mobile source emissions [3].
• Using the University of Denver's vehicle exhaust remote-sensing equipment, 1385 measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions were collected from in-use snowmobiles at the west and south entrances to the park [3].
• In two separate studies, charts of 169 all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident victims admitted to the emergency department of Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, California, were reviewed [4].
• Exposure to benzene, toluene, xylenes and total hydrocarbons among snowmobile drivers in Sweden [5].

Associations of Off-Road Motor Vehicles with chemical compounds

• CONCLUSIONS: Snowmobile injuries are related to ethanol use and the high speed attained by the newer generation of snowmobiles [6].

Gene context of Off-Road Motor Vehicles

• A snowmobile accident caused a pulp injury to the liver and tear of the vena cava of a 21-year-old man [7].
• RTA was found in 36% of the fatalities that occurred as a result of car and motorbike accidents [8].

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