Pedestrians are often considered the most vulnerable group of road users. The aim of our study was to analyze the forensic aspects of pedestrian traffic fatalities in Rijeka region. We analyzed pedestrian fatalities in a 5-year period (2002-2006), which included 44 fatally injured pedestrians examined at the Rijeka Institute of Forensic Medicine. The male:female ratio was 1:1. The median age wa...

Driver assistance systems are being developed by automakers as mean to reduce traffic accidents. For examples, night vision systems that warn drivers of pedestrians during nighttime driving and pre-crash safety systems for collision mitigation have been commercialized in recent years, indicating that pedestrian detection will become an important function for driver assistance systems in the nea...

Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities account for approximately 21% and 8% of all road fatalities in the EU, respectively. The objective was to describe the characteristics of fatal crashes with pedestrians and bicyclists on Swedish rural roads and to investigate the potential of different infrastructure and vehicle interventions to prevent them. The Swedish Transport Administration (STA) in-dept...

A descriptive analysis of road traffic accident (RTA) and injury data in Kenya was done using routine accident reports, official statistical abstracts, published and unpublished surveys. The characteristics of injury-producing accidents examined included trends, distribution patterns, risk factors, types of vehicles involved, and road-users injured or killed. The numbers killed increased by 578...

The use of micromobility (MM), a form sustainable urban mobility which has expected effects such as reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse gases, been rapidly increasing across the world. However, this growth resulted in considerable number MM-related accidents. Most previous studies have explored MM user injuries to improve safety users, but threat pedestrians by is not yet fully understoo...

The paper outlines the nature and severity of the injuries suffered by pedestrians in motor vehicle accidents in England. Pedestrian admissions to hospitals in England as recorded in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) over a nine year period were compared with accidents recorded in Great Britain’s national road casualties database (STATS19). Alongside this, the most frequently injured region...

INTRODUCTION The risk of collision between pedestrians and powered two-wheelers is poorly understood today. The objective of this research is to determine the risk for powered two-wheeler drivers of hitting and injuring a pedestrian per kilometer driven in towns and to compare this risk with that run by four-wheeled vehicle drivers. METHOD Using the bodily injury accidents recorded by the pol...