A utomobile accidents have become one of the major problems in Saudi Arabia, just as in other parts of the world. Although Islamic rule prohibits half the population—women— from driving and forbids the consumption of alcohol—often cited as a factor in accidents in other count ries—t here were 24,594 traffic accidents involving 40,728 vehicles in Saudi Arabia in 1983. Death and injuries from aut...

Currently, from the statistical analysis of accidents at home and abroad, the number of automobile defects and the resulting automobile accidents are very large. Obviously, the automobile defects have become one of the main factors affecting traffic safety, and risk assessment as an automobile key technical defect of risk management, the elimination of defects and reduce automobile accidents ar...

the current study investigated the types of accidents and their effects among 0-14 year old children during the months of ordibehesht-mordad of 1990 in tabriz, iran. a total of 717 patients were randomly selected from the patients admitted at two hospitals. a questionnaire was used to interview the subjects or their family members present at the hospital. results indicated that automobile accid...

conclusions as the results of this study show, different factors contribute to different driving behaviors and accidents. the broad scope of these factors links accidents to other social issues and damages. results the findings indicated that in the psychosocial model of driving behavior (including lapses, mistakes, and intentional violations) and accidents, psychological factors, depression (p...

annuel statistiques et commentaires. Paris: Ministère des Transports, 1999. 2 Horne JA, Reyner LA. Sleep related vehicle accidents. BMJ 1995;310:565-7. 3 Philip P, Ghorayeb I, Stoohs R, Menny JC, Dabadie P, Bioulac B, et al. Determinants of sleepiness in automobile drivers. J Psychosomatic Res 1996;41:279-88. 4 Philip P, Taillard J, Guilleminault C, Quera Salva MA, Bioulac B, Ohayon M. Long dis...

s u i c i d e o r attempted suicide is usually con­ sidered in terms of conscious and overt self-destructive action. However, data introduced in this paper suggests that many persons with self-destructive inclina­ tions may attempt to destroy or injure themselves through automobile accidents, and that these accidents are rarely perceived as suicidal attempts by either the driver or the public. ...

Traumatic dislocations of hip may occur as a result of a fall from a height on an abducted hip, a heavy weight falling on the back with the hip in an abducted position or as the result of automobile accidents. ' Dash board dislocation ' |s the term used by American writers for dislocations that occur as a result of automobile accidents either to the driver or the companion 111 the driver's seat.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between cognitive perceptual abilities of elderly drivers based on the Cognitive Perceptual Assessment for Driving (CPAD) test and their accident and penalty histories. METHODS A total of 168 elderly drivers (aged ≥65 years) participated in the study. Participant data included CPAD scores and incidents of traffic accidents and penalties, attained from...

Local automobile garage workers carry out daily workshop operations, which sometimes lead to accidents and injuries. Therefore, this study was carried out to establish a relationship between automobile workshop operations causing accidents and safety practices among local garage workers in Ghana. Three main data collection approaches were used in the study namely focus group discussions (10 FGD...