Seat belt use is an important factor in the prevention of automobile accidents involving injuries and fatalities. The current study used a multielement design to compare the "Click It or Ticket" and "Please Buckle Up--I Care" procedures. Results indicate that the Click It or Ticket prompt resulted in a 20-percentage-point increase in seat belt use, and Please Buckle Up-I Care resulted in a 14-p...

Introduction Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury (BTAI) refers to tearing of the wall of the aorta, a serious, often fatal, injury that occurs during severe automobile collisions. BTAI is one of the most common causes of death in road traffic accidents [1], and may be caused by other impacts, such as in fall victims. Despite 150 years of speculation on the subject, however, there is still widespread ...

In this age of speed and traffic accidents, the incidences of blunt injuries to the abdomen has been at its height due to the evolution of the modern industrial era with the development of the automobile; and the creation of explosive compounds capable of producing enormous compression forces impacting upon human bodies [1]. According to WHO by the year 2020, trauma will become the first or sec...

BACKGROUND Although less frequent than automobile accidents, train accidents have a major impact on victims' lives. METHODS Records of patients older than 16 years of age admitted to the Adult Emergency Department of Hacettepe University Medical Center due to train accidents were retrospectively evaluated. RESULTS 44 patients (30 males, 14 females) with a mean age of 31.8±11.4 years were in...

A ccording to estimations by the World Bank, 350,000 people are killed in automobile accidents in the developing world each year. Two-thirds of these accidents involve pedestrians, most of whom are children, and occur in cities or surrounding areas. As a result of the population surge in urban areas and the rise in vehicle ownership, the figures are still mounting. In fact, road accidents repre...

Accounting for unreported accidents due to ex post moral hazard is important for studying asymmetric information in insurance markets. In this paper, I study ex post moral hazard in an automobile insurance market with experience rating. I develop a dynamic model in which policyholders with private information about their risk types choose accident prevention efforts (ex ante moral hazard) and m...