Certain driving errors are predictive of crashes, but whether the type of errors evaluated during on-road assessment is similar to traffic violations that are associated with crashes is unknown. Using the crash data of 5,345 older drivers and expert reviewers, we constructed a violation-to-error classification based on rater agreement. We examined the effects of predictor variables on crash-rel...

This paper reports the results of a study that explored the relationship between fatal crashes and conflict rates at mid-block on 14 locations in Delhi, India. All locations had a mix of motorized and non-motorized traffic. The sites were selected to represent low, medium and high fatality rates. The analysis was done in two stages. The first stage used recent 3-year statistics along the entire...

The attempts to predict crashes on freeways through statistical modeling involving capacity driven measures of traffic flow (e.g., AADT) and road geometry have spanned for more than two decades. However, success in crash prediction involving these static data has so far been limited. In recent times, some researchers made efforts to accommodate the weather conditions and seasonal effects to bet...

The objective of the study was to assess the independent contribution of individual, car and circumstantial features in severe and fatal car crashes involving young drivers. A prospective longitudinal, register-based cohort study was conducted at national level (in Sweden), in which people born in the years 1970-1972 (n = 334070) were followed up for the period 1988-2000 (aged 16-18 years in 19...

BACKGROUND There is increasing importance of trauma not only as a major cause of surgical admissions, but also a significant cause of morbidity, mortality and disability. OBJECTIVE To document injury-related visits and hospitalization in a provincial hospital, western Kenya. METHODS On-site review of records of all patients who visited emergency department (ED) from January 2002 through Dec...

This paper examines differences in accident characteristics and causation at different blood alcohol levels among 372 accident involved motorcycle riders who were tested shortly after they crashed. The subjects were part of a large, prospective, in-depth study of 1082 accident-involved motorcyclists in Thailand in which investigators went to the scene immediately after a crash to collect and an...

Much of the recent decline in road traffic injuries and fatalities in developed nations is attributed to government regulations and institutional crash test ratings. While the regulations provide minimum performance or equipment requirements, crash tests provide a standardized method for crashworthiness comparisons between vehicles, and they do so using prescribed crash scenarios that aim to re...

This study analyzes the profile of deaths from road traffic accidents in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, by linking two public databases, the Information System of the Urban Transportation and Transit Company (BH10) and the Mortality Information System (SIM). The linked database (n = 306) identified a 24% under-recording rate for deaths and differed in the age distribution from the ...