Whiplash injuries due to rear-end car collisions is one of the most aggravating traffic safety problems with serious implications for the European society. Yearly more than a million European citizens suffer neck injuries from rear-end car collisions, implying tremendous societal costs. Therefore the European Community has sponsored the European Whiplash project. The objective of this paper is ...

Railroads in North America have recently come under pressure to avoid transporting certain high hazard materials through metropolitan areas. There are two principal reasonsfear of terrorist attack and concern about the risk of an accident-caused release. Consequently, a number of municipalities are considering legislation to block hazardous materials transportation through their communities, th...

background, aim, method, result) max 200 words: Hazardous situations for older drivers and older drivers’ accident involvement and visual behaviour in complex traffic situations have been studied in the reported research project. Three main methods have been used: 1) a thorough accident analysis of police reported accidents in Norway, 2) a literature study on existing research on older drivers’...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the risk of knee injuries among vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. METHODS Two different periods (years 1985-1993 and 1995-2003) were compared. Inclusion criteria were furthermore Abbreviated Injury Scale knee 2-3 (AIS(knee)). Technical analysis assessed the type of collision, direction and speed as well...

Safe navigation support through wireless car-to-car and car-to-curb communications has become an important priority for car manufacturers as well as transportation authorities and communications standards organizations. New standards are emerging for car-to-car communications (DSRC and more recently IEEE 802.11p) [8]. There have been several well publicized testbeds aimed at demonstrating the f...

This report aimed to compare the effects of pre-driver education programs at rural secondary schools which have an in-car component (driving a car in an off-road environment) with the effects of pre-driver education programs which do not have this component. Thus, the study attempted to measure the net effects of the in-car component of these programs. Data was collected by mail-back questionna...

Introduction: After an evening of alcohol consumption, blood alcohol concentration (BAC) may reach intoxication levels above legal limits for operating a car or bicycle. In the Netherlands, legal limits for participating in traffic are 0.05% for experienced drivers and 0.02% for novice drivers. The purpose of this study was to determine bicycle accident risk of Dutch students after an evening o...

We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period. Data were collected from eleven hospitals and completed with accident police records. A spatial quadrat analysis, a Comparative Accident Index, and a comparative analysis of the means of different socio-ecological variables between high and low risk accident ar...

advanced driver assistance systems (adas) have the potential to accomplish a major contribution to road safety. this is valid for minor crashes to very severe accidents with personal injuries. the allianz centre for technology attends the development of new driver assistance systems by carrying out accident analysis and estimating the efficiency of new adas. in this context new adas from differ...

David Geff en School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles Mrs. R, a 68-year-old retired teacher, is referred to you for suspected mania after a closed head injury from a car accident. The referring physician reports that Mrs. R experienced mild anterograde amnesia that has resolved, but she continues to suff er from “persistent mood swings as evidenced by substantial inappropriate laughter.” Mrs. R ...