Single-vehicle roadway departure (SVRD) accidents occur in many cases owing to driver distraction or drowsiness constituting a substantial share of today’s road vehicle accidents and casualties. This paper describes a distraction-based lane-keeping support system, which intervenes only when the driver is positively detected as being distracted. Distraction here is understood as cognitive and vi...

BACKGROUND Accidents are the most important public health challenges in our society. To prevent the accidents, the identification of their epidemiological features seems necessary. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to reveal the epidemiological features of accidents and their casualties in Qom province in 2010. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 29426 injured pe...

At present, almost all mountain tunnels in Japan are excavated and constructed utilizing the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM), which was advocated by Prof. Rabcewicz of Austria in 1964. In Japan, this method has been applied to tunnel construction since around 1978, after which there has been a subsequent decrease in the number of casualties during tunnel construction. However, there is sti...

The objective of the study was to assess the association between high blood alcohol levels and fatal victims of traffic accidents in the Brazilian Federal District, in 2005. A total of 442 casualties (163 pedestrians, 84 victims of overturns, and 195 of collisions) were studied. Blood alcohol concentration was analyzed in 238 cases (53.7%). Most victims were young males, aged between 18 and 35 ...

roads are crucial to our everyday lives as we use them  by driving, riding, walking or travelling as a pedestrian. worldwide, more than  1.2 million people are killed on roads every year and up to 50 million more are injured; with most casualties from developing countries. in addition to different disabilities, road.accidents cause extensive psychological disorders and grief, and occasionally e...

Fire accidents occur in every part of the world and cause a large number casualties because risks involved manually extinguishing fire. In most cases, humans cannot detect extinguish fire manually. robots with sophisticated functionalities are being rapidly developed nowadays, these systems use sensors detectors. However, they lack mechanisms for early detection fire, case casualties. To preven...

Statistics of accidents in British coal-mines have been collected in one form or another since 1873 (Ministry of Power, 1957). From those early days there has been a steady decline in the numbers of fatalities but even now more than 300 men a year are killed in mining accidents. About a million and a half injuries, varying from the trivial to the fatal, are reported in a year and coal-miners, w...

The purpose of this study was: (1) to propose a classification system for the contributory factors behind major coach and bus accidents with mass casualties based on human factor analysis (HFACS); (2) identify main indicators causal factors. Based 56 official investigation reports more than 10 fatalities, qualitative content was conducted develop modified these accidents, gray correlation causa...

Background: In recent decades, ‎due to the increase in users of roads and inadequate attention to the creation and development of appropriate passageways for traffic, there has been a growing trend in traffic accidents and casualties caused by them. The traffic accidents among pedestrians to take necessary measures in a timely fashion should be well studied. This study was conducted with th...