Younger Drivers and Sport Utility Vehicles

Driver injury severity: an application of ordered probit models.

This paper describes the use of ordered probit models to examine the risk of different injury levels sustained under all crash types, two-vehicle crashes, and single-vehicle crashes. The results suggest that pickups and sport utility vehicles are less safe than passenger cars under single-vehicle crash conditions. In two-vehicle crashes, however, these vehicle types are associated with less sev...

The effects of vehicle model and driver behavior on risk.

We study the dependence of risk on vehicle type and especially on vehicle model. Here, risk is measured by the number of driver fatalities per year per million vehicles registered. We analyze both the risk to the drivers of each vehicle model and the risk the vehicle model imposes on drivers of other vehicles with which it crashes. The "combined risk" associated with each vehicle model is simpl...

بررسی ابعاد خستگی شغلی در رانندگان وسایل نقلیه سنگین

Background and purpose: Occupational fatigue is one of the main problems in work environments. Investigation of different aspects of occupational fatigue in drivers is of great benefit in reducing the level of road accidents. Materials and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in 420 drivers of heavy vehicles. Data was collected using a demographic and job information questionnaire a...

Investigating the Cognitive Relationship between the Color of Vehicles and the Type of Accidents Leading to Death and Injury of Drivers

Abstract Introduction: Annually, many people die or suffer from irreparable injuries in road accidents worldwide. One of the causes of accidents is the cognitive factors of the drivers that the vehicle's color is one of the factors that affect the cognitive performance of the drivers. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between color of vehicle's and type of accid...

Driving Under the Influence: The Nature of Selling Sport Utility Vehicles