RT Journal
A1 Amyes EW
T1 NEck injury to women in automobile accidents
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD March 24
VO 207
IS 12
SP 2284
OP 2284
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150250114024
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150250114024
AB To the Editor:— 
    The article, "Neck Injury to Women in Auto Accidents" (206:2689, 1968), states:The neck injury rate for women in metropolitan regions was 4.8 times and in nonmetropolitan regions, 1.7 times that for men. Auto injuries to areas other than the neck were also higher in women. Yet, the rates for injury not due to auto accidents for both men and women were about the same in each region, the metropolitan being approximately twice the non-metropolitan rates.In the course of treating a large number of women who have been referred from general practitioners for evaluation of neck injuries, it has been apparent that a woman will have physical manifestations of neck injury, in many cases in which she was riding in a car with a man who generally did not complain of a neck injury. It has been a common observation that the neck musculature of