OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the validity of self report as a source of information on crashes and injuries. SETTING This study was part of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (DMHDS), which is a longitudinal study of the health, development, and behaviour of a cohort of young New Zealanders. METHOD At the age 21 assessment DMHDS study members wer...

The prediction of traffic accidents is one of most important issues in our life. In the prediction of traffic accidents, a GIS platform to extract the important features including day, temperature, humidity, weather conditions, and month of occurred traffic accidents has been used. In this study, a decision making system (DMS) based on correlation-based feature selection and classifier algorith...

Objective: The rate of road traffic accidents in Iran per capita and for the number of vehicles is much higher than the average in the world. The present study was conducted to investigate road traffic accidents in Yazd province during 2011-2015.Methods: The present study is a descriptive-analytic study in which data were obtained from data collection forms related to deaths from driving ...

Road Traffic Accidents are considered to be one of the leading causes of death and injuries worldwide. In recent years as many as 50 million people are injured or disabled by road traffic accidents every year. Road traffic accidents impose a burden on countries by costing up to 4% of their Gross National Product. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of injuries r...

Almost 1.2 million people pass away in the world every year due to traffic accidents. Person, road and vehicle play important role in accidents that the most important factor is person. Traffic accidents are the third cause of mortality in the world. Modification and implementation of traffic laws and improvement of safety culture are being able to decrease traffic accidents. This descriptive s...

In Saudi Arabia the motor vehicle is the main means of transportation. Between 1971 and 1997; 564,762 people died or were injured in road traffic accidents, a figure equivalent to 3.5% of the total population in Saudi Arabia. During this period 66,914 people have died on the roads in Saudi Arabia due to road accidents, amounting to one person killed and four injured every hour. Over 65% of acci...