European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Fag 8 the stars and stripes . Friday no Vemta 26, . Officials defend cadaver tests by the Washington Post Washington revelations that Auto safety re searchers in Germany May have used human Corpse including those of children in automobile crash tests have caused an uproar in Germany. But . Officials wednesday defended cadaver re search which has been going on for decades in the United states As a Tif Saver. Such studies Are absolutely Essen tial for motor vehicle safety said George Parker associate administrator for research at the National Highway traffic safety administration which funds $2.5 million in cadaver collision research each year. . Facilities use As Many or More bodies annually than Heidelberg University in Germany but no corpses of children. The juror in Germany surrounds collision tests funded in part by the . Department of transportation involving some 200 corpses at the University Over the past 20 years. Alexander Gramlich chief prosecutor for the City of Heidelberg said wednesday that his office was investigating whether researchers had disturbed the dignity of the dead and whether they had obtained proper permission from family members As the University maintains. Auto safety research programs that use cadavers can be found across the United states and have prompted some controversy in the past. Congressional hearings were held on the subject in 1978. At present the re search is funded by the safety administration the Federal centers for disease control and prevention in Atlanta and . Automobile companies. The $1 million per year program at Wayne state University in Detroit uses about 12 corpses annually to stud Impact injuries and to help design More accurate crash dummies. Another program at the medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee uses corpses to test the design of scat belts air bags and other restraint devices. At the University of Virginia researchers in the Engi Neering school s Auto safety Laboratory have used Ca Davers to design precise computer models of lower leg injuries. That program has used 20 cadavers since 1989, said spokeswoman Louise Dudley. Engineers said they use corpses because despite Theta line on the Auto safety commercials there s Only so much you can learn from a can t even build Dummy without the data from cadaver testing said Albert King head of the Way estate Bio engineering Center. You can t just use a Man Nequin out of a department store showroom. Without the cadaver testing the data from crash Dum Mies would be useless Parker said. Knowing that real legs tend to break at 2,250 pounds of pressure and that real chests collapse at 60 times the Force of Gravity gives re searchers benchmarks that can be applied to tests with dummies. Researchers fit the cadavers with dozens of pieces of scientific equipment. Accelerometers measure Speed an acceleration of different parts of a body in an Accident and displacement devices measure such factors As How Many inches a person s Chest is depressed upon Impact. King compared each Complex test to a rocket launch. 3 killed in construction accidents window Washer Dies in 29-floor fall from wire reports a 16-ton Winch plummeted to the Bot Tom of a new York City water Tunnel wednesday killing one worker and a temporary Bridge collapsed onto a new Hampshire Highway killing two workers. And in Chicago a scaffolding holding two window washers 29 floors above the ground collapsed wednesday sending one Man plunging to his death. The new York death was the 20th fatality in the Tunnel project since construction began in 1970, officials said. The Winch used to lower heavy equip ment into a 450-foot-deep Access Shaft for the new water Tunnel became unbalanced and toppled into the opening at the construction site in the new York City Borough of Queens. Ricocheting from Side to Side As it fell the huge Winch swept away most of the two catwalks holding workers. It just pinball cd All the Way Down said it. Kenneth Memmon of the fire department. Rescuers lowered into the dark cold wet Shaft found seven workers about 350 feet Down clinging to the Wall of the Shaft or balancing on the remains of a dead Man was underwater at the Bottom of the Shaft beneath the survivors were hospitalized with broken Bones and the other four escape with minor injuries. The Accident is under investigation. One survivor Michael Boyce 43, said he dangled upside Down from a piece of broken catwalk for about 30 minutes be fore he managed to right himself. The $5 billion water Tunnel schedule for completion in 2010, will be the third connecting the City to its reservoirs in the catskills. Debris from a collapsed Bridge Slu on a Highway near Concord on wednesday. In new Hampshire the single Lane temporary Bridge about 90 to 100 feet Long was built to carry traffic while an adjacent Highway Bridge was resurfaced last summer said Leon Kenison chief new Hampshire state Highway Engineer. The permanent Bridge about 10 Miles Northwest of Concord was reopened about three weeks ago. The temporary Ridge was being dismantled when it col lapsed wednesday Kenison said. The Structure fell about 20 feet onto a Busy local Road burying two workers in the wreckage. But it missed traffic below. In Chicago the window Washer died when a Cable snapped As he and another window Washer were stepping onto the scaffolding. Neither Man Nad looked up his safety harness. The other Man grabbed onto a rope and Slid partway before falling into a pile of trash authorities and witnesses said. He suffered a broken ankle and Heel and rope Burns on his hands. Fossil group indicted on theft charges Sioux Falls . A the Fossil Hunting company at the heart of the controversy Over a tyrannosaur Rex Fossil nicknamed sue has been indicted on charges that it stole other fossils from government s 39-count indictment against the Black Hills Institute of geological research also includes charges of interstate transportation of stolen goods making false statements and Money Federal grand jury also indicted the Institute s owners Nealand Peter Larson and Robert far Rar along with eight most serious charges Money laundering carry a Maxi mum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 indictment is the latest instalment in a court Battle betwee the firm and Federal officials that began in May 1992, when agent seized the Fossil known As sue. The Fossil is being stored in rapid Duffy a lawyer rep resenting the Institute called the indictments science in seizing sue Federal official charged that the Fossil was taken Ille Gally from Federal Trust land on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation. Institute officials said that the did not know sue was on Trust land and that they paid rancher Maurice Williams $5,000 for the Bones. Sue in t even included in the indictment Duffy said this is jus the us. Attorney s office s Way of trying to Salvage whatever they can from the millions of dollars wasted on this brother of new governor testifies on alleged vote bribes _ _ _. My a _
