Pedestrians are among the most vulnerable road users. Speed of vehicles is considered as one of the major causes of danger for pedestrians crossing the street. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to devise suitable solutions to reduce speed of vehicles. One of these solutions is installation of Pedestrian Refuge Islands (PRI) in very wide midblocks. With regard to fluctuations in pedestrian a...

To study the characteristics of fatal vehicle-pedestrian accidents in China，a team was established and passenger car-pedestrian crash cases occurring between 2006 and 2011 in Beijing and Chongqing, China were collected. A total of 121 fatal passenger car-adult pedestrian collisions were sampled and analyzed. The pedestrian injuries were scored according to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and Inj...

A retrospective cross-sectional study is conducted analysing 11,771 traffic accidents reported by the police between January 2008 and December 2013 which are classified into three injury severity categories: fatal, injury, and no injury. Based on this classification, a multinomial logit analysis is performed to determine the risk factors affecting the severity of traffic injuries. The estimatio...

Injury and collision data from London’s Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and the UK’s Police fatal files were used to quantify and describe the nature of pedestrian head injury and investigate the causes. The HEMS data relating to all pedestrian accidents since 2000 was analysed with respect to their injuries, and the cost of these injuries was estimated using the time they spent on ...

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...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate and determine the factors affecting vehicle pedestrian accidents taking place in busiest suburban highway Guilan Province located north Iran provide most accurate prediction model. Therefore, effective principal variables probability occurrence each category crashes are analyzed computed utilizing factor analysis, logit, Machine Learning appr...

This paper investigates fatal accidents and fatalities at level crossings in Great Britain over the 64-year period 1946-2009. The numbers of fatal accidents and fatalities per year fell by about 65% in the first half of that period, but since then have remained more or less constant at about 11 fatal accidents and 12 fatalities per year. At the same time other types of railway fatalities have f...

The incidence of traffic injuries was studied during a two year period from 1983 to 1984 using routinely collected statistics by the Traffic Police. The severity of injuries was analysed by age and sex in different categories of road users. Causes leading to the occurrence of accidents were also examined in pedestrian victims. An annual incidence of 11,253 injuries for 1983 and 11,856 for 1984 ...

We performed a retrospective analysis of 217 pedestrian traffic fatalities in Seattle, WA, U.S.A. that occurred over a six-year period using medical examiner records with essentially all of the deaths examined by autopsy. The annual pedestrian fatality rate for the county averaged 2.0/100,000 for all ages and both sexes, and the age-specific rate varied from 1.0/100,000 for the 22-34 year age g...

road traffic accidents (rta) are one of the most important causes of death and disability all over the world. in developing countries the problem is more complicated. based on the estimation by unicef, rate of rta in iran is 20 times more than world’s average. in iran among all unintentional fatal injuries inflicted on children under five, traffic related fatalities are the leading cause of dea...