Road traffic accidents in Thailand, as is the case in some other developing countries, are on an alarming rising trend and pose a major loss for society. Statistics indicate that: a) the fatality rate from road traffic accidents increased more than fourfold during the past three decades; b) the number of fatalities caused by traffic accidents were 15,176 (1994 figure), and the number of injurie...

OBJECTIVES To identify the changing trends and crucial preventive approaches to road traffic accidents (RTAs) adopted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) over the last 2.5 decades, and to analyze aspects previously overlooked. METHODS This systematic review was based on evidence of RTAs in KSA. All articles published during the last 25 years on road traffic accident in KSA were analyzed. Thi...

Abs t rac t . This paper presents a method I for tracking and segmenting vehicles in a traffic scene. The approach is based on a frame to frame segmentation followed by a tracking process. As opposed to usual segmentation methods, our method feedbacks segmentation with tracking information for improving results. Several facilities are provided for traffic monitoring such as vehicles trajectorie...

introduction: traffic accidents are the 8 th cause of mortality in different countries and are expected to rise to the 3 rd rank by 2020. based on the haddon matrix numerous factors such as environment, host, and agent can affect the severity of traffic-related traumas. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the effective factors in severity of these traumas based on haddon matrix. meth...

A case is described of a 22-year-old man who had inhaled a piece of shattered windscreen glass following a road traffic accident. The indications for bronchoscopy are discussed and the literature reviewed.

Inter-urban roads in Indonesia are characterized mainly by distinct road geometry and heterogeneous traffic features. The accident database from the Republic of National Traffic Police recorded a substantial number fatal accidents

Road accident prediction plays an important role in accessing and improving the road safety. Besides the conventional generalized linear regression, the prediction approaches based on fuzzy logic and neural networks have increasingly been proven to have a significant accident-predicting capability in recent years. However, fuzzy logic and neural network have their respective limitations. For ex...

iran is one of the countries with a high rate of accident casualties in highways and cities. we are amongst the pioneers in accident related deaths and casualties in the world. in just 2014, road and highway casualties and fatalities were 315,719 and 17,994 respectively. motorcycles passengers and pedestrians are the main victims of these casualties. definitely, by appropriate measures, the suf...

The vehicle traffic accidents have been widely studied in different countries, but the difference of nature of traffic accidents in different countries was not adequately investigated for set suitable protective strategy in different area. This study aimed to identify the occurrence, type and mechanisms of the traumatic injuries of the vulnerable road users (VRUs) in vehicle collisions in China...