Measurement of pedestrian traffic in public areas (e.g., stations, airports, shopping malls or complex buildings) provides valuable information. For safety management, congestions can be detected to prevent accidents in their early stage by monitoring the pedestrian traffic continuously. Knowing the number of people working in a large building may help to when designing evacuation plans. For ma...

Abstract Car-to-pedestrian collision (CPC) accidents occur frequently, and pedestrians often suffer serious head/brain injuries. One major cause is the primary impact with windshield. Here, we use a numerical simulation method to study influence of windshield inclination angle passenger car on pedestrian injury due CPC accidents. The range was set 24°–50°, an interval 2°. results show that sign...

One thing that makes road accidents particularly abhorrent is that so many young people are killed and injured.' In England and Wales in 1992 a quarter of all deaths in the age group 10-14 years were due to road accidents and 57% of these were pedestrians. As well as the suffering caused by the injuries inflicted, fear of accidents means that people go out less than they otherwise would. It is ...

Road traffic accidents are currently between the seventh and tenth leading cause of death in world, with approximately 1.35 million people killed per year. Despite extensive efforts by governments, according to World Health Organization, road still far too many deaths, especially among pedestrians, cyclists two-wheel motor vehicle riders, who together account for almost 50% fatalities. In parti...

A retrospective cross-sectional study is conducted analysing 11,771 traffic accidents reported by the police between January 2008 and December 2013 which are classified into three injury severity categories: fatal, injury, and no injury. Based on this classification, a multinomial logit analysis is performed to determine the risk factors affecting the severity of traffic injuries. The estimatio...

are plotted in the same way, an almost identical distribution is obtained. This shows that no selection was made according to the time of day of patients from whom samples were obtained. Fig. 2 shows the blood-alcohol levels of the 121 road-trafficaccident drivers (aged 18 years and over) in our series according to the time of the accident in which they were involved. Between 2200 and 0200 hour...