OBJECTIVE To assess whether area-wide traffic calming schemes can reduce road crash related deaths and injuries. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Injuries Group Specialised Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, EMBASE, Sociological Abstracts Science (and social science) citation index, National Technical Information service, Psyc...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To measure socioeconomic differences in injuries among different age groups of children and adolescents. SUBJECTS Children under 20 living in Sweden between 1990 and 1994 (about 2.6 million). METHOD A cross sectional study based on record linkage between 15 Swedish national registers. Children were divided into four age groups and allocated to four household socioeconomic st...

BACKGROUND Globally, road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among those aged 15-29 years. However, road traffic injury research has not received adequate attention from the scientific community in low- and middle-income countries, including India. The present study aims to provide a bibliometric overview of research assessing road traffic injuries in India. METHODS We used Scopu...

background: traffic accidents are the main cause of death and disability in the world and iran. the injuries caused by traffic accidents may result in severe limitations and worst outcomes in various aspects of lives of traffic accident injured people and their families. therefore, understanding their experiences is very important to design better programs with regard to their treatment and ret...

Road traffic accidents account for approximately 3000 deaths on a daily basis, and 50 million injuries and 1.2 million deaths each year. In low-income and middle income countries, road traffic accidents account for 85% of deaths and 90% of annual disability. Casualties of this magnitude are a serious problem throughout the world and create a significant impact on society. In addition, neurologi...

background and aim: injuries from traffic accidents are a major public health problem, and the third leading cause of mortality in people aged 1 to 40 years. each year 31.8 persons per hundred thousands of iranians are killed in car accidents. neighboring of north khorasan province with razavi khorasan, a province with a lot of pilgrims caused a large number of passengers travel via north khora...

We assessed the impacts of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) implemented in 2020 on road traffic injuries. used police data from October-December 2018/2019 (pre) compared with same period (post). found absolute numbers injuries inside LTNs halved relative to rest London (ratio 0.51, p<0.001). Considering changes background travel patterns, our results indicate substantial reductions pedestri...

background and aim: more than 50% of road fatalities occur in the 15 to 44-years old which are the young and active group of the society. one of the effective ways to reduce road accidents is using safety belts. in this study the rate of seat belt use and its associated factors have been estimated in the 15 to 44-years old of kerman. materials and methods: this study was a cross-sectional descr...

Road Traffic Accidents are considered to be one of the leading causes of death and injuries worldwide. In recent years as many as 50 million people are injured or disabled by road traffic accidents every year. Road traffic accidents impose a burden on countries by costing up to 4% of their Gross National Product. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of injuries r...

Evaluating Automated Anti-Icing Technology to Reduce Traffic Collisions Reducing fatalities, injuries, and property damage related to traffic collisions is a priority for road safety agencies. Traffic collisions result in more than 2,200 fatalities and 173,000 injuries each year on Canadian roads. Inclement weather is a contributing factor in traffic crashes for approximately 21 percent of the ...