Considerable interest has been excited by a charge of homicide by imprudence, preferred against Dr. J. D. M. Coghill of Colombo, in having caused the death of Mr. Stephen Rowan Aitken, by negligently and without due caution prescribing and causing to be administered certain medicines. From the evidence, it would appear that Mr. Aitken, who was thirty years of age, had been under Dr. Coghill's t...

Much to the frustration of road safety researchers, practitioners, and advocates, road deaths and injuries have not been widely accepted as a major public health threat. Currently, road trauma is one of the biggest killers and causes of serious and disabling injuries in the world. Although there has been considerable research on the causes of road injury and ways of mitigating the problem, ther...

The number of motorized vehicles is climbing exponentially in developing countries, and so is the number of people killed in accidents involving those vehicles. Traffic crashes in poorer nations tend to be fatal more often than those in developed countries because they often involve pedestrians and riders in less protected vehicles such as rickshaws, bicycles, or motorcycles. Such accidents are...