Vehicular speed has a two-fold influence on traffic accident risk: It affects both probability of involvement and severity of consequence. In terms of involvement, it was long ago suggested that deviation from the mean travel speed of surrounding traffic carried an increased risk fbr the “offending” vehicle.’ A vehicle traveling significantly faster or slower than surrounding traffic is either ...

Numerous studies both in North America and abroad have studied the roundabout as a means to improve the capacity and safety of intersections. The focus of these studies has been to reduce both the number and the severity of accidents, and have generally come to agreeable results. Nevertheless, few studies have dealt with the identification of accident factors within roundabouts. The varied phys...

An accident is a deviation from expected behavior of event that adversely affects the property, living body or persons and the environment. Security in vehicle to vehicle communication or travelling is primary concern for everyone. The work presented in this article documents the designing of an accident detection system. The accident detection system design informs the police control room or a...

Although fear and travel avoidance among anxious drivers are well documented, relatively little is known about the behavior of anxious individuals who continue to drive. Previous research has identified three broad domains of anxious driving behavior: exaggerated safety/caution behaviors, anxiety-based performance deficits, and hostile/aggressive driving behaviors. In an effort to explicate fac...

BACKGROUND The study of the severity of occupational injuries is very important for the establishment of prevention plans. The aim of this paper is to analyze the distribution of occupational injuries by a) individual factors b) work place characteristics and c) working conditions and to analyze the severity of occupational injuries by this characteristics in men and women in Andalusia. METHO...

road accident severity may be influenced by a number of various systematic causal factors. the weather and road accidents have a close relationship with each other and a number of methods have been proposed for measuring the risk of a road accident with rainy, foggy, and snowy weather and high winds. recent studies indicate that road collision rates increase during precipitation. the weather wa...

OBJECTIVE To analyse factors associated with late return to work in road accident victims. MATERIALS AND METHODS The ESPARR cohort comprises road accident victims monitored over time from initiation of hospital care. A total of 608 ESPARR cohort subjects were working at the time of their accident and answered questionnaires at 6 months and/or 1 year. For each level of overall severity of inju...

Several different factors contribute to injury severity in traffic accidents, such as driver characteristics, highway characteristics, vehicle characteristics, accidents characteristics, and atmospheric factors. This paper shows the possibility of using Bayesian Networks (BNs) to classify traffic accidents according to their injury severity. BNs are capable of making predictions without the nee...