BACKGROUND AND AIM: The study aimed to assess the frequency of head and face injuries in motorcyclists who had an accident and to find out the relationship between helmet use and frequency of these injuries. METHODS: A cross-sectional study with multi-stage sampling method provides data on the injured motorcyclists with road accidents. Data came from a registration form which has documented inf...

The neck injury has long been known to pose a death threat to motorcyclists in road crash, Besides, the neck carries several vital structures such as phrenic nerve and part of the origin of brachial plexus. Injuries to these will cause numerous complications. The study on motorcycle road crash has indicated that the neck injury is one of the major single causes of death in Malaysian motorcyclis...

Background: To assess determinants of willingness to pay for community health insurance among commercial motorcyclists (Boda Boda riders) in Kampala City. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional research was done. A sample of commercial motorcyclists’ stages were purposively selected. Simple random sampling was used to select respondents at each stage.  Structured interviews and contingency val...

BACKGROUND Motorcyclists are the most vulnerable vehicle users in India. No published study has assessed the validity of self-reported estimates of helmet use in India. The objectives of this study were to assess helmet use by comparing observed and self-reported use and to identify factors influencing use among motorcyclists in Hyderabad, India. METHODS Population-based observations were rec...

This study examines the accident characteristics of injured motorcyclists in Malaysia. The aim of this study is to identify the characteristics of motorcyclists who are at higher fatality risk and subsequently be the targeted group for the fatality-reduction countermeasures. A total of 412 motorcycle crash victims with serious or fatal injuries were analysed. The results showed that the injured...

Commercial motorcycles have posed a lot of hazards usually in form of accidents which are often serious and fatal. Using ABU, Zaria as a case study, this survey aims to assess the occupational health hazards among motorcyclists. A cross sectional survey design was used for the study. Questionnaires were administered to 216 respondents. Majority of whom were in the age group of 30-34 years with ...

conclusions willingness to pay can be affected by experiencing an accident, the distance of the daily trip, and helmet use. the cost of traffic injuries among motorcyclists shows that this rate is much higher than the global average. thus, expenditure should be made on effective initiatives such as the safety of motorcyclists. results the mean wtp was 888,110 irr (iranian rial) among motorcycli...

OBJECTIVE To describe sociodemographic characteristics and analyze temporal trends in the mortality of motorcyclists injured in traffic accidents. METHODS This was a time-series study with data from 580 motorcyclist deaths in the Brazilian Federal District from 1996 to 2007. The data were obtained from the Mortality Information System. Mortality rates specific for age and sex, the standardize...

Despite the significant increase in mortality among older motorcyclists during the past decade, few studies have addressed specific injuries or mortality rates among all those injured. The purpose of this study is to describe the crash and injury characteristics among a cohort of motorcyclists injured in Maryland, and to determine the influence of age and crash type on mortality, injury pattern...