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Air Bag-Related Deaths and Serious Injuries in Children:Injury Patterns and Imaging Findings AJNR 19:1599-1607,1591, Marshall,K.W.,et al, 1998 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The cause of death or serious injury in every case was the direct result of neurologic injury. Injury patterns differed according to the child's age and type of restraint used at time of collision. Crush injury to the skull predominated in infant victims traveling in rear-facing child safety seats, and both cranial and cervical spine trauma occurred in older children traveling restrained, improperly restrained or unrestrained in the vehicle's front passenger seat. Air-bag systems pose a potentially fatal threat to the front seat child passenger. This is This is directly related to the biomechanics at impact placing the child closer to the deploying air bag. An understanding of the biomechanics provides the radiologist insight into the two types of injury patterns observed.

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