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...

Dear Editor, Globally, about 1.25 million people die because of road traffic crashes every year. Although low‑ and middle‑income countries have only half of the total vehicles, they contribute nearly 90% of all crashes in the world. In India, according to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), there was an increase in the total number of accidents, persons injured, severity of inj...

I n 1988, a total of 721 road users were killed in New Zealand, and 17,317injured. The cost to the country of all road accidents, based on figures supplied by the Ministry of Transport, is estimated to be a staggering $600 million (U.S. dollars) a year.’ When compared with two developing countries, one of which had high vehicle ownership comparable to New Zealand, New Zealand had a higher fatal...

epilepsy is one of the most prevalent serious neurologic conditions, affect 1 % of the population worldwide. people with epilepsy may feel it's safe to drive when their seizures seem to be under control, but patients with epilepsy were seven times more likely to have a driving accident leading to emergency room care than those without epilepsy. people with seizures had 2.3 times the rate o...

A retrospective cross-sectional study of injury patients who attended the Accident and Emergency Unit was conducted at the University of Malaya Medical Centre. Demographic data with regards to age, sex, race, occupation and the relevant data such as type of accident, type of injury sustained and also severity seen during the month of January 2005 were selected retrospectively from medical recor...

The main objective of this paper is to estimate the cost of road traffic accidents in Egypt. The Human Capital (HC) approach, specifically the Gross-Loss-of-Output methodology, is adopted for estimation. Moreover, cost values obtained by previous national literature are updated using the inflation rates. The results indicate an estimated cost of road traffic accidents in Egypt of approximately ...

One of the major reasons for road accidents now a days is due to driver fatigue. Be it long distant travelling or drunk driving drowsy state leads to risky crashes which is hazardous to lives as well. To overcome such accidents some method has to be developed that is feasible to all vehicle drivers . This paper is a survey based on various methods for preventing road accidents and designs on dr...

OBJECTIVE To review the road safety situation in developed and developing countries compared with the Arabian Gulf countries and suggest a strategy to improve it. The role of road engineers in reducing accidents is highlighted. METHODS This is a retrospective study of road traffic accidents (RTAS) for a period from 1988 to 1998 in Arabian Gulf Countries. The data was taken from the Directorat...

this study focused on the public transport risk assessment in district one of ​​tehran through fault tree analysis involving the three criteria of human, vehicle and road in haddon matrix. in fact, it examined the factors contributing to the occurrence of road accidents at several urban black spots within district 1. relying on road safety checklists and survey of experts, this study made an ef...

Introduction: Frequency of traffic related mortalities is increasing worldwide. The present study aimed to predict deaths from road traffic accidents for the first time in Iran. Methods: All death statistics from traffic accidents in Iran between March 2004 and March 2011 were available for analysis. The Box-Jenkins time series model was used for trends purposes. Death from traffic accidents we...