BACKGROUND We established a trauma registry in 2003 to collect data on trauma patients, which is a major cause of death in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The aim of this paper is to report on the long term effects of our early analysis of this registry. METHODS Data in the early stages of this trauma registry were collected for 503 patients during a period of 6 months in 2003. Data was colle...

background and objective : to resource allocating at national levels as results of productivity, cost calculation helps to determine the size of the problem and revealed cost benefits of injury prevention and it can also ensure the better resource using and cost benefit assessment. this study was conducted to determine the method of calculating road traffic injuries cost. materials and methods:...

The last decade has witnessed the introduction of several driver assistance and active safety systems in modern vehicles. Considering only systems that depend on computer vision, several independent applications have emerged such as lane tracking, road/traffic sign recognition, and pedestrian/vehicle detection. Although these methods can assist the driver for lane keeping, navigation, and colli...

injuries caused by traffic accidents cause many deaths and disabilities children. road traffic injuries are the main cause of death between the ages of 15 and 19 years and is the second cause of death among 5 to 14 year olds. children's attitudes about driving and safe use of roads formed in 11 years. road traffic injuries is one of the five cause of disability among children. most victims...

road traffic accidents (rta) are one of the most important causes of death and disability all over the world. in developing countries the problem is more complicated. based on the estimation by unicef, rate of rta in iran is 20 times more than world’s average. in iran among all unintentional fatal injuries inflicted on children under five, traffic related fatalities are the leading cause of dea...

BACKGROUND The three-wheeler Qing-qi and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) auto-rickshaws were introduced in Karachi to meet the transportation demand of the growing population. These vehicles have directly or indirectly been implicated in a number of road traffic violations as well as road accidents. This study aims to describe the crash characteristics and injury patterns for Qing-qi rickshaw occu...

worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...

Collisions of vehicles with wildlife kill and injure animals and are also a risk to vehicle occupants, but preventing these collisions is challenging. Surveys to identify problem areas are expensive and logistically difficult. Computer modeling has identified correlates of collisions, yet these can be difficult for managers to interpret in a way that will help them reduce collision risk. We int...

Speeding is a major cause of traffic accidents and is estimated to be the cause of about 40% of fatalities in road accidents. Speed is a major accident risk factor and affects both rate and severity of traffic accidents. This importance has led to universal use of intelligent control systems for maintaining road safety by enforcing speed regulations. In this study, a modeling is carried out by ...

In today's life, every human is in hurry to reach their destination like home, office, college, shopping mall, restaurant, etc as quickly as possible. To reach their destination quickly people use vehicles on road use and drive them in faster mode which results in road accidents. Driver behavior is a major cause for the road accidents. To address this problem, drive behavior analysis and predic...