The characteristics of patients with non-fatal road traffic injuries who received care from non-referral hospitals are described; an assessment of the difference between the characteristics of patients who received care at a referral hospital and those of patients who were treated at non-referral hospitals is made. A retrospective study, conducted in Chon Buri Province, Thailand, reviewed infor...

In comparison to other transportation modes, riding motorcycle is prone to accidents. Motorcyclists are more exposed to physical injury than the car drivers. Many multi-vehicle motorcycles crashes occur, there is right-of- way violation takes place in which another vehicle turns in fronts of a motorcycle, or a sudden cross of path of an on-coming motorcycle. One main factor which leads to high ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the behavior temporal of road-traffic injuries (RTI) in Valledupar, Colombia from January 2008 to December 2012. METHODOLOGY An observational study was conducted based on records from the Colombian National Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences Institute regional office in Valledupar. Different variables were analyzed, such as the injured person's sex, age, education level...

BACKGROUND Currently Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) are ranked tenth among the leading causes of death and ninth among all leading causes of disability worldwide. There has been no published study on RTA in Gulu municipality. There is a high frequency of RTA in Gulu municipality with poor road design and inadequate knowledge on road safety precaution among road users. OBJECTIVES To establish th...

M alaysia has one of the highest traffic accident rates in the world, which has caused concern among all quarters involved in the road transport sector. Figure 1 shows a comparison between Malaysia and some of the more advanced countries in terms of fatalities per lo,00ovehicles. Traffic accidents in Malaysia cost the country 600 million ringgit (about $200”million U.S. dollars) in 1986, and th...

In a previous study, it is well documented that adolescents are more likely than adults to engage in risky behaviour (Arnett, 1992). Most evidence suggests that risk-taking is the most important major factor underlying the high crash rates among teens. The objectives of this study were: 1) to examine the extent of risk-taking behavior of Malaysian motorcyclists, and 2) to investigate the relati...

Chronic exertional compartment syndrome is now easily identified among the athletic population. It remains common in motorcyclists. The only treatment is the fasciotomy of the compartments and the gold standard procedure is still the open-invasive surgery. The authors describe a new mini-invasive surgical procedure to perform a 4-compartment fasciotomy of the forearm, and expose their results. ...

We have performed an ethnographic study that reveals the importance of social interaction, and especially traffic encounters, for the enjoyment of biking. We summarized these findings into a set of design requirements for a service supporting mobile interaction among motorcyclists. The Hocman prototype is designed to meet these requirements. It is an application for handheld devices equipped wi...