Police requested 30,839 analyses from cases in which driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol and/or drugs was suspected in 1991. After exclusion of other than motor car accidents, non-drivers, cases with no blood sample as well as cases where drinking was claimed to have taken place after driving 21,723 cases were left. Eighteen per cent (3,910) of these drivers had been involved in a traf...

sustained a whiplash injury in a car accident within the year, schedules an office visit for evaluation of pain she has been experiencing for 7 months in the right side of her neck and the trapezius. The pain radiates down the medial aspect of her right arm to the 4th and 5th digits, and it worsens when she brushes her hair or lifts bags of groceries. She feels her quality of life is significan...

In this paper, we investigate (and extend) Ripley's circumference method to correct bias of density estimation of edges (or frontiers) of regions. The idea of the method was theoretical and difficult to implement. We provide a simple technique based of properties of Gaussian kernels-to compute efficiently weights to correct border bias on frontiers of the region of interest, with an automatic s...

MR. D., aged 48 years, saw me four months after a severe injury to both of his orbits. The injury was self-inflicted in a fit of unsound mind, probably the outcome of a motor car accident in which he was involved. It was caused by a revolver which, it is alleged, he fired after placing its muzzle on his right temple. The shot went 'in a straight line through both the orbits and emerged out of h...

Elderly drivers have a high accident rate per kilometer driven, though not per person per year, and elderly pedestrians and transit users also have above average accident rates. The potential of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to enhance vehicle safety for elderly and less able travellers is examined. For car drivers, Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS) and Advanced Tra...

Global positioning system is used to get the vehicle position and can be shared with other nodes in the network. The sparse vehicle traffic leads to network fragmentation, is challenging task for safety application. In case of emergency not all the vehicle get affected in network so broadcasting of alert packet is not feasible rather it has to be multicast, but defining the list of node for mul...

introduction: traffic accidents are the 8 th cause of mortality in different countries and are expected to rise to the 3 rd rank by 2020. based on the haddon matrix numerous factors such as environment, host, and agent can affect the severity of traffic-related traumas. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the effective factors in severity of these traumas based on haddon matrix. meth...