Space bullet trauma

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In ballistics, space bullet trauma occurs when a bullet is discharged in to the air and falls on to a person. A round travelling 820 meters per second will climb more than three kilometers before beginning its slightly slower descent. Between 1985 and 1992, revelers celebrating the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve killed 38 people and wounded 118 others across the Los Angeles area alone. The mortality rate among those struck by space bullets is about 32%, compared with about 2-6% normally associated with gunshot wounds. This alarmingly high number is indicative of the fact that the vast majority of SBT wounds are head wounds.

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