68 • IATSS RESEARCH Vol.27 No.1, 2003 PERSONALITY AND SPEEDING – Some Policy Implications – Richard TAY Philip CHAMPNESS Barry WATSON Associate Professor in Road Safety Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Te...

PURPOSE The purpose is to analyze the incidence and costs of accidents among Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patients. METHODS The analysis relied on administrative medical, pharmaceutical, and disability claims for a national manufacturer's employees, spouses, dependents, and retirees (n > 100,000). Accidental injuries were identified using ICD-9 codes for injuries or poisoni...

A method for deriving quantitative relationships between road slipperiness, traffic accident risk and winter road maintenance (WRM) activity is described. The method is also applied to data from an area in southern Sweden. If a specific type of road slipperiness represents a large accident risk despite high WRM activity it is important to increase public awareness during such periods. If the ty...

OBJECTIVES Recent studies indicate that accident risk may be a function of hour at work and time of day. Further evidence was sought for these assumptions, along with the answer to the question of whether the risk of accident can be conceived as an interaction between hours at work and time of day. METHODS Data on more than 1.2 million accidents for the year 1994 were provided, all listed acc...

This study aimed to investigate the correlation of different impact conditions to the injury severity and impact biomechanics of pedestrians in real world accidents, and study the tolerance level with focus on head-brain of adults and children via indepth analysis and reconstructions of real world accidents. For this purpose, 188 pedestrian accident cases were selected from existing accident da...