one of the leading causes of death and disability in the middle east is road traffic accidents. there are multiple factors that cause these traffic accidents, and the most important of which is fatigue, drowsiness and lack of concentration. the risk of road traffic accidents due to sleepiness, which were reported by police, increased by more than sevenfold in low alertness hours during circadia...

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...

AIM To assess the prevalence of fatal road traffic accidents in Tirana, Albania, and describe their determinants. METHODS This cross-sectional study included all road traffic accidents recorded by the Traffic Police Department of Tirana district for the period 2000-2005. A structured questionnaire included information about the type of traffic accident (fatal vs non-fatal event), year of even...

Background: Road accidents, as the main causes of mortality and disability in the world, have been seriously endangering human health. Human factors are among the most significant causes of road accidents. This study aimed to investigate the association between high-risk behaviors among truck drivers with their fatigue and drowsiness in the occurrence of road accidents and near miss accidents. ...

The efforts led by the Government of the Republic of Korea to reduce the fatalities and road traffic accidents played a major role in decreasing the fatality rate in road traffic accidents. In the past 5 years (2012-2016) the fatalities from road traffic accidents continued to decrease due to the implementation of the 7th transportation safety master plan. Table 1 and Figure 1 show that the num...

Vehicular multi-hop ad hoc networks (VANETs) are an important technology for future developments of vehicular communication systems. Vehicles are able to exchange information within these networks without the need of installing any infrastructure along the roadside. VANETs can be used to improve the road safety by e.g. warning drivers about accidents in front of the road or to provide Internet ...

objectives the main aim of this study was to assess the road emergency sites (recs) in iran. materials and methods provincial data were used for this purpose. concentration index, concentration curve, lorenz curve, and the gini coefficient were calculated to assess the distribution of recs. results the results of this study showed that the distribution of recs was in favor of provinces with hig...

objective: to investigate trend and seasonal pattern of occurrence and mortality of motorcycle accidents in patients referred to hospitals of isfahan. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out using traffic accidents data of isfahan province, extracted from ministry of health (moh) database from 2006 to 2010. during the study period, 83648 people injured due to motorcycle traffic acci...

The issue of road accidents is an increasing problem in developing countries. This could be due to increasing road traffic/vehicle occupancy. This has been increasing over years. Regulating traffic on roads is an important task. There by reducing accidents in accident prone zones. The accident was drastically increased over a decade from 4% to 31%. This is a alarming issue. The analysis and ide...