Posted on 05/24/2015 7:08:06 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash, local media has reported.
Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia were both killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, the reports said.
The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
His breakthroughs in maths - and his struggles with schizophrenia - were the focus of the film.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Did you learn that in hospital?
Not long after breaking up with Eleanor, he met Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé (born January 1, 1933), a naturalized U.S. citizen from El Salvador. [...] They married in February 1957. [...] Nash and de Lardé divorced in 1963. [...] In the 1990s, Alicia and Nash resumed their relationship, and remarried in 2001.
Source: Wikipedia
So, they were actually married for a total of only about 20 years.
Regards,
The only studies done have been are head-on collisions. Most school bus injuries are from roll overs as school buses are very top heavy.
Also...School bus injuries and deaths are compared to **all** travel in cars regardless of who is doing the driving and when. No studies have been done comparing the school bus with the parents driving the child to and from school with the child secured in a seat belt.
There are approximately 60,000/year admissions to the emergency room for school bus injuries. Nearly all could be prevented with seat belts and having an adult ( other than the driver) supervision in the back of the bus.
The saddest school bus injuries are when the book bag straps or clothing of a child is caught in the doors of the school buses and the child is dragged ( usually to their death.)
Finally,....School bus design is STUPID. There are rarely escape doors in the roof on the buses and this complicates rescue when the bus rolls over.
Sad news. RIP.
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Sorry! ...It is 17,000 admissions to the emergency room due to school bus injuries. Also...What about the injuries that never go to the ER but go directly to the dentist or pediatrician?
The following is from the article:
” The researchers’ data included injuries that didn’t stem from a crash, such as those occurring when a driver braked suddenly or made a sharp turn.
Based on that sample, gathered from the 66 hospitals monitored for injuries of all kinds, the researchers extrapolated that an average of 17,000 children per year were treated in emergency rooms all over the country for school-bus-related accidents in the three years studied.
Ten- to 14-year-olds had the highest proportion of such visits to an emergency room, at 43 percent of all the children with such visits in those three years. Children ages 5 to 9 represented the second-largest group, at 27.3 percent of emergency room visits. Strains and sprains accounted for the most injuries, at 33.4 percent, followed by contusions or abrasions, at 28.3 percent.
Most of the emergency room visits that occurred were in the two-month time period of September and October. The researchers hypothesized that back-to-school “anxiety and excitement,” coupled with new bus drivers, could lead to more accidents during that period.
The researchers’ numbers are much higher than those compiled by the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council, which provides independent research to the federal government. The board has estimated that there are 5,500 school-bus-related injuries to children as passengers per year.”
How safe are school buses compared to all other motor vehicles? School buses are one of the safest forms of transportation in the United States. More than 42,000 people are killed in traffic crashes on U.S. roads every year. Every year, approximately 450,000 public school buses travel about 4.3 billion miles to transport 23.5 million children to and from school and school-related activities. Yet, on average, every year, six school age children (throughout the U.S.) die in school bus crashes as passengers. NHTSA strives to ensure that there are no fatalities in school buses.
Because of the unending poor design of the shoulder harness part of the seat belt. You'd think after 40 years they would design a shoulder harness that doesn't seem to have to position itself around a persons neck. I don't wear Tee shirts nor button the top two buttons on shirts for the same reason. A suit and a tie? Never! I'll rip it off my chest. Lap belts I'm fine with but taking a shoulder/seat belt combination and placing the shoulder harness portion behind my back makes both ineffective.
I think seat belts and even a chest belt are great ideas. Too bad the engineers and designers of them can't seem to focus on making them to where they don't constantly agitate the user by rubbing or pressing the side of their neck due to them being mounted behind and above head level at an angle. That should be an easy enough to resolve issue to design a more user friendly {height adjustable} and comfortable system. Make the shoulder harness portions height adjustable for all and mounted on a locking track instead of the current one size fits all to cover everyone from 4'10 to 6'6" with no consideration where it touches the persons body. Or make an adjustable chest belt built into the seat itself crossways. Even theme park roller coaster rides have better shoulder harnesses. Notice they go down the sides straight up and down away for the persons neck?
Finding the reason as too why people can't or don't wear them is never studied or taken seriously it seems.If it was we'd likely see needed changes made. The basic design has not changed since they first came out you'll notice. Making someone wear them by threat of laws and insurers is their answer. Again the concept is great. The focus on functional comfort has been ignored for decades though.
Well I do understand what you mean... I have some “dangerous” hobbies as well including motorcycle riding and hang gliding. With all the regulations it sometimes seems amazing that we are allowed to do anything at all.
I still wear a seat belt because I don't want to get a ticket but also because we spend a lot more time in the car than we are on our motorcycle. And despite going to a lot of motorcycle mishaps over the years I have actually seen a lot more dead people who were ejected or partially ejected from their cars. On a motorcycle sensible people have a sense of vulnerability. In their cars... many people feel invincible whether or not their are wearing a safety belt.
On a beautiful summer day not so long ago we showed up to a rollover from a freeway off ramp. When the young lady swerved to avoid bumping into the car in front of her... she ended up in the dirt and rolled her car. There was no actual collision and it was low speed, if it wasn't on a the side of a small hill created for the overpass I doubt the car would have even rolled. The girl was partially ejected because she didn't have her safety belt on. Her own car rolled over her head and busted it open and she died on scene. I doubt whether she sensed any danger just before she died.
Same as my best friend's brother..late 20's early 30's.
A horrible disease, Skip was a Vietnam Vet, graduated from U. of Mich, and a high energy professional.
It was all downhill from there.......
Making someone wear them by threat of laws and insurers is their answer. Again the concept is great. The focus on functional comfort has been ignored for decades though.
I grew up on acreage with cows and horses. My dad used to let my brother and sisters and I ride home on top of the hay truck. We loved it because it felt like we were flying 12 or so feet up in the air going down the highway. Even new cars when I was little didn’t have seat belts. So up until they made it mandatory I wasn’t in the habit of wearing a seat belt.
I don’t think it is comfort... I think it is largely habit that keeps people from wearing a safety belt. I don’t know that it should be the law except that laws do help people like me change their habits.
Rest in peace Mr. & Mrs. Nash
You're used to wearing the thing. Now that I've brought it to you attention you're likely gonna start noticing just how many times you have to reach up and pull the shoulder belt off your neck unless you're about 6"4" LOL.
BTW I used to wear them long before it was law.
RIP.
Jag-ee-wahr.
No seat belt laws for back seat riders
Sad to read this. He was a giant in economics and mathematics. His Hash Equilibrium for Game Theory greatly expanded the topics game theory could examine.
Now that I’ve brought it to you attention you’re likely gonna start noticing just how many times you have to reach up and pull the shoulder belt off your neck unless you’re about 6”4” LOL.
I am sorry your seat belts are so uncomfortable for you. I hope you will eventually be able to find some type of work-around to make them more comfortable. My wife has long hair and sometimes has difficulty with other people’s belts catching it. I have been in some people’s vehicles where they were uncomfortable for me and we used to have a car where the shoulder harness would keep you from leaning forward to do such things as reaching for change when you are trying to pay at a drive through... generally at the most inopportune times.
The only valid comparison is to compare school buses injuries and deaths as compared to those occurring with a child in the car, in a properly secured seat beat, with the parent driving the car, and on their way to and from the school.
These studies have never been done.
And...Of the 17,000 emergency room visits due to school bus injuries, how many would have been prevented if there were seat belts and proper adult supervision ( other than the driver)? Unknown, also, are the visits made to private dentists and physicians because the child was injured on his bus.
There is the school bus design. Escape hatches on the roof of buses would aid in rescue and would not be an outrageous expense to include in the construction of future buses.
Finally, one of the saddest injuries and deaths is the child who is dragged by their school bus due to their clothing being caught in stair railing or in the door. That type of injury and death could be completely avoided with proper adult supervision ( other than the driver.)
Lord Jesus, rest Thy servants John and Alicia with the saints.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
Wonder what the mathematical odds of that were?
May he RIP.
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