Draft:C. Hunter Sheldon

C. Hunter Sheldon (March 27, 1907 – 2003) was an American neurologist known for advocating for the seat belt, and for other measures to reduce injury rates and severity among motor vehicle accident victims.

In 1946, C. Hunter Shelden opened a neurological practice at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California. In the early 1950s, Shelden made a major contribution to the automotive industry with his idea of retractable seat belts. This came about from his care of the high number of head injuries coming through the emergency room.^[1] He investigated the early seat belts with primitive designs that were implicated in these injuries and deaths.

To reduce the high level of injuries Shelden was seeing, he proposed, in late 1955, retractable seat belts, recessed steering wheels, reinforced roofs, roll bars, automatic door locks, and passive restraints such as air bags be made mandatory.^[2]

https://www.americanacademyns.org/past-and-future-meetings-detail/shelden-c-hunter

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/302856

References

^ "HMRI News". Hmri.org. Archived from the original on February 26, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
^ Shelden, C. Hunter (November 5, 1955). "Prevention, the only cure for head injuries resulting from automobile accidents". Journal of the American Medical Association. 159 (10): 981–6. doi:10.1001/jama.1955.02960270001001. PMID 13263134.

Category:1907 births Category:2003 deaths Category:American neurologists

[1] "HMRI News". Hmri.org. Archived from the original on February 26, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-02.

[JAMA-2] Shelden, C. Hunter (November 5, 1955). "Prevention, the only cure for head injuries resulting from automobile accidents". Journal of the American Medical Association. 159 (10): 981–6. doi:10.1001/jama.1955.02960270001001. PMID 13263134.

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