Accident reports written by oocial bodies, such as the Air Accident Investigation Branch of the United Kingdom's Department of Transport, are produced in response to all major civil aircraft accidents or incidents. There are many statutory, legal and commercial implications that rest on the analysis, conclusions and recommendations that these reports contain. Air accident reports usually follow...

For more than 20 years, in France as in many other countries, the number of pedestrians killed in road accidents has tended to decrease. The stakes remain high, however : 1,126 pedestrians killed in France in 1994, and this user category is particularly vulnerable in accidents. To further our knowledge of pedestrian accidents, an analysis of data supplied in reports drawn up by the police force...

Today, steel tower cranes are widely used in the construction sites. In this study, the accident occurred in Turkey in 2006 with the overturning of a tower crane in a construction site and the damage occurred on the nearby buildings due to this accident were taken into consideration. At first, the technical characteristics of the EC-H type tower crane used in that construction and then the reas...

The majority of fatal aircraft accidents are associated with ‘loss-of-control’. Yet the notion of loss-of-control is not well-defined in terms suitable for rigorous control systems analysis. Loss-of-control is generally associated with flight outside of the normal flight envelope, with nonlinear influences, and with an inability of the pilot to control the aircraft. The two primary sources of n...

This paper describes the development of two systems which manage the data related to traffic accidents. One system conducts analyses using information on accidents, roads, and weather; for example, calculation of the rate of the accidents depending on road conditions or weather. The second system analyzes accidents using the information on safe facilities, for example, extraction of the sites w...

An important method for the development of strategies and measures to prevent accidents and mitigate the injury severity is the analysis of accident databases. However, the variety of research questions requires different kind of information. To assess accident situations, examine trends, or similar analysis, databases at a base level such as national statistics are available for many countries...