News & Events: Traumatic Injuries

UCSF News reports on the research of Dr. Rochelle Dicker and her team into pedestrian accident injury in San Francisco:  San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles. She never refers to those collisions as accidents. "An accident implies there is nothing we can do about it. Like it's an act of God. But an injury or crash implies that there is something we can do to potentially reduce risk and prevent harm," said Dicker, MD, one of the directors of the San Francisco Injury Center [...]

SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on the toll of pedestrian injuires in San Francisco where two to three people are hit by cars every day:  Two to three people are hit by cars every day on San Francisco's dangerously motorized streets, and researchers are beginning to paint a clearer picture of the economic toll. The more than 800 pedestrian crashes a year are racking up a $76 million bill for injuries, reports the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC), and advocates say it's imperative the city invest in preventative measures......... The statistics [...]