in many countries road crashes are the main cause of fatal accidents related to job. the aim of our study was to characterize a population of iranian professional drivers with regard to history of drivers’ road crash incidents and some occupational factors. using swedish version of the nordic questionnaire information about musculoskeletal pain prevalence in last 12 months, demographic features...

OBJECTIVES The 2013 World Health Organization Status Report on Road Safety estimated that approximately 1.24 million deaths occur annually due to road traffic crashes with most of the burden falling on low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this research is to study the prevalence of road traffic crashes in Mekelle, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia and to identify risk factors with the ult...

OBJECTIVE The study evaluated associations between outcome measures used in driving research including self-reported crashes, state crash records, and an on-road driving test (ORT). METHOD A total of 750 community dwelling participants aged 69 to 95 were recruited via the electoral roll into a study on injury prevention. Of these, 509 were drivers, and data on self-reported crashes, and eithe...

OBJECTIVE This study aligns to the body of research dedicated to estimating the underreporting of road crash injuries and adds the perspective of understanding individual and crash factors contributing to the decision to report a crash to the police, the hospital, or both. METHOD This study focuses on road crash injuries that occurred in the province of Funen, Denmark, between 2003 and 2007 a...

Poisson regression and negative binomial regression have been widely used to model the road crashes and to predict crash frequency. Zero inflated models have been shown to be a powerful tool to predict crash frequency when crash data are characterized by preponderance of zero. This paper presents the research work aiming to correlate the road traffic crash rate with road geometry and traffic ch...

The last decade has seen a large amount of road safety effort put into investigating the socalled ‘older driver problem’. As a consequence, our knowledge of older drivers and their functional performance, their driving and crash patterns and their crash risk, has increased substantially. However the research has given little direct attention to the special challenges that older drivers pose to ...

How to maintain public transit safety and sustainability has become a major concern for the department of Road Traffic Administration. This study aims to analyze the risk factors that contribute to fatality in road traffic crashes using a 5-year police-reported dataset from the Wuhan Traffic Management Bureau. Four types of variables, including driving experience, environmental factor, roadway ...

Most research on cyclist safety is focused on bicycle motor vehicle crashes. Only a few studies address single-bicycle crashes (i.e. a fall or obstacle collision), in spite of the fact that most cyclists admitted to hospitals are single-bicycle crash victims. This study developed a categorization of single-bicycle crash types. A draft categorization was developed based on the scarce literature ...

Random effect panel data hurdle models are established to research the daily crash frequency on a mountainous section of highway I-70 in Colorado. Road Weather Information System (RWIS) real-time traffic and weather and road surface conditions are merged into the models incorporating road characteristics. The random effect hurdle negative binomial (REHNB) model is developed to study the daily c...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Post-crash management can play a significant role in minimizing crash consequences and saving lives. Iran has one of the highest mortality rates from road traffic injuries in the world. The present study attempts to fill the knowledge gap and explores stakeholders' perceptions of ...