BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of variables such as personality traits, driving behavior and mental illness on road traffic accidents among the drivers with accidents and those without road crash. METHODS In this cohort study, 800 bus and truck drivers were recruited. Participants were selected among drivers who referred to Imam Sajjad Hospital (Tehran, Iran) duri...

Studies carried out in Moscow residents have revealed that the prevalence of chronic toxoplasmosis is very close to those in countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Our findings also demonstrated a statistically significant relationship between the rate of traffic accidents and the seroprevalence of chronic toxoplasmosis in drivers who were held responsible for accidents. The latter was 2.37 t...

The project MARVin is about assessing the relation between road infrastructure and road accidents. A large amount of data about the Austrian roads was gathered with the RoadSTAR (Road Surface Tester of arsenal research). This data was put into a database associated with accident data. The result was a database of about 12.500 km of road where all the road parameters (skid resistance, cross fall...

Traffic accidents were ranked the third among the major causes of death in Thailand. About 13,438 deaths and the death rate from traffic accident was 21.5 per 100,000 of population in 2002. The deaths and death rate varied upon the economic situation. After the economic crisis, traffic accidents were increased as well as the period of the bubble economy. In the Central region of Thailand number...

Driver hypovigilance (‘falling asleep at the wheel’) is a major cause of road accidents, accounting for up to 20% of serious accidents on motorways and monotonous roads in Great Britain, whereas 56,000 crashes are stated by the US police annually, having as primary cause the driver hypovigilance, according to NHTSA studies. The European Commission Road Safety strategy identifies driver hypovigi...

SLEEPINESS IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE FREQUENCY OF HIGHWAY VEHICLE CRASHES and has serious consequences as it leads to a far higher fatality rate than other factors.1,2,3,4 The available data regarding the incidence of sleepiness vary considerably from country to country according to police methods for gathering data, to the population studied, to the definition of sleepiness adopted...

This thesis investigates the distribution of slippery roads in Sweden and the UK for the present climate and how this may be affected by climate change for the rest of the century. It also addresses future scenarios for traffic accidents and winter road maintenance. The purpose of this thesis is to get a better understanding of winter road conditions and relationships to motor vehicle accidents...