INTRODUCTION In many low income countries, commercial vehicles are the major source of motorized transport. Drivers of such vehicles may be an important focus for road safety efforts. AIMS An estimation of the percentage of motor vehicle related injuries that involved commercial vehicles in Ghana was sought. The knowledge, attitude, and practices of commercial drivers with regards to road saf...

CONTEXT Currently, little is known about rates of death by cause and country among US travellers. Understanding the risk by cause and country is imperative to risk communication and the development of risk reduction strategies. METHODS Publicly available data on non-natural deaths of US citizens abroad were gathered from January 2003 to December 2009 from the US Department of State's Departme...

One of the major reasons for road accidents now a days is due to driver fatigue. Be it long distant travelling or drunk driving drowsy state leads to risky crashes which is hazardous to lives as well. To overcome such accidents some method has to be developed that is feasible to all vehicle drivers . This paper is a survey based on various methods for preventing road accidents and designs on dr...

 Although fraction of PDO and non-fatal injury-causing crashes are very small for rural areas, almost half the fatal crashes occurs in rural areas.  Majority of crashes occurred in occurred in normal driving conditions but severe crashes were associated with factors like inattention, speeding, and driving under influence.  Total number of crashes, number of injuries, and number of PDO crashe...

INTRODUCTION Published studies investigating the role of driver sleepiness in road crashes in low and middle-income countries have largely focused on heavy vehicles. We investigated the contribution of driver sleepiness to four-wheel motor vehicle crashes in Fiji, a middle-income Pacific Island country. METHOD The population-based case control study included 131 motor vehicles involved in cra...

As crash data have distinctive behavior like over-dispersion, researchers used statistical methods to deal with this unique of specifically. This study employed generalized linear modeling techniques develop the model. It was assumed that accident counts followed negative-binomial distribution, and link function chosen be log function. Negative-binomial technique over Poisson distribution becau...

Increases in bicycling in the United States result in increased exposure to crashes and injuries. This research focuses on the factors involved in bicycle crashes in the United States and the state of Iowa. Data from the U.S. Nationwide Inpatient Sample and the Iowa Department of Transportation were used to address three aims: 1) estimate the burden and examine the outcomes of bicycle crashes r...