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EDITORIALS: Angela D Mickalide, Karen DiCapua, and Heather Paul Ensuring the safety of school age passengers BMJ 2002; 324: 1108-1109 [Full text]

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Riding in the Back Seat

Andrew D. Lynk, Sydney NS Canada B1P 1P3   (13 May 2002)

Question about safety of body positions in rear seats

FLORENCIO G CUERVO   (14 November 2003)

Riding in the Back Seat 13 May 2002
Andrew D. Lynk, Consultant Pediatrician Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney NS Canada B1P 1P3 Send response to journal: Re: Riding in the Back Seat	I would add to Angela Michalide's excellent editorial "Ensuring the safety of school age passengers", the Americian Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that all pre-adolescent children ride (properly restrained) in the back seat of the automobile. Such a simple maneuver will significantly reduce the risk of death and serious injury to the child.
Question about safety of body positions in rear seats 14 November 2003
FLORENCIO G CUERVO, Florencio 17401 spain Send response to journal: Re: Question about safety of body positions in rear seats	I'm involved in leading students to design bed like rear seating (with raised knee position) in which the lower seat reclines backwards as the seatback does (like in office seating reclining) The idea is that in the event of a crash the body adopts a fetal position, avoiding submarinning and thorax and abdomen damage. Could you give an advice on where I could find specific informations or active researchers to do so?? I'd be very glad that anyone respond me. I want to do my best for the next automotive designers to contribute to as safe as creative designs. Emailto:cuervoprieto@yahoo.es Florencio Cuervo, Industrial Designer MSC in Auto Engineering Professor at istituto Europeo di Design Former Researcher and Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires Competing interests: AUTOMOTIVE INTERIOR DESIGN