The demographic change and the expected change in driving patterns of elderly require adoption of cars in larger scale to this group than it was the case in the past. This study focusses on the special situation of elderly as car driver (w.r.t. accident risk) and car occupant (w.r.t. injury risks). The main data sources for this study were accident studies from the literature (mainly CCIS and G...

Traffic safety related to motorcycle riding constitutes a growing issue all over the world. This is notably the case in France, where the important progress recently obtained toward a safer driving by car didn't prove to be so much effective for motorcycling. The present study has the purpose to give some cues on the reasons why, by characterizing the specificities of accident scenarios involvi...

The performance metric for tank cars and other hazardous materials vehicles involved in accidents has generally been conditional probability of release given involvement in an accident. This metric considers the probability of a release event occurring but does not take into account the quantity of product lost in a release incident. In this paper, a new metric termed “release risk” is introduc...

background: seat belts have been proven as one of the most successful means of preventing or reducing injuries to occupants of cars during an accident. this paper examines the reasons behind the non-compliance of the seat belt law in malaysia and suggests possible measures to get the percentage of seat belt usage up higher. methods: various databases of articles were searched for seat belt usag...

On or about the 9th October last, a young lad, aged 12, met with a tram accident, The accident occurred in a somewhat curious way. The lad left the car, while it was in motion, uninjured ; but while, out of sheer childish prank, he tried to pick up with his right foot one of his slippers which fell off from his foot below the car, he was run over. The right foot sustained a compound comminuted ...

epilepsy is a disease with high prevalence, which interferes driving and may lead to car accident this case-control study has been done on 100 epileptic patients and 100 persons as control group, who had history of driving. we gathered our patients with face to face interview and registering their information in special forms which were prepared for this study. there were three times more accid...

background injuries and accidents are the first cause of death in the first 5 years of children life in the world; the present study was conducted to investigate the extent and distribution of accidents in the infants under one year in hamadan province, iran. materials and methods:this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was carried out using of   data of injuries and accidents related t...

With rapidly changing computer and IT and much of the technology finding way into cars, cars are undergoing histrionic changes in their ability. Although some cars have provisions for deciding to either generate warnings for the human driver or control the car free, they usually must make these decisions in real time with only incomplete information. So, it is important that human drivers still...