Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are a major public health concern, resulting in an estimated 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries worldwide each year. In the developing world, RTAs are among the leading cause of death and injury; Ethiopia in particular experiences the highest rate of such accidents. Thus, methods to reduce accident severity are of great interest to traffic agencies and the ...

In this work, an intelligent traffic light controller that incorporates very important personnel (VIP) movement is presented. VIP movement often cause chaos or in the worst case accident at cross junctions. Traffic quantity, waiting time and siren intensity are the inputs to the system. The fuzzy logic tool box in Matlab 7.0 was used to simulate the system. The results obtained from running the...

This paper reports on the results of a security analysis of the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS) specifications. ERTMS is designed to be fail-safe and the general philosophy of ‘if in doubt, stop the train’ makes it difficult to engineer a train accident. However, it is possible to exploit the fail-safe behaviour of ERTMS and create a situation that causes a train to halt. Thu...

Individuals who fall asleep at the wheel usually do so because they are sleep deprived. It is likely that they are aware of the circumstances leading to sleepiness and of feeling sleepy before the event. Nevertheless, sleepiness sufficient to cause or contribute to an accident may involve a disorder of sleep, and little attention has been given to such disorders in the consideration of accident...

About 1815 PST on December 28,1978 Flight 173 crashed into a wooded, populated area killing 8 passengers and 2 crewmembers, and seriously injuring 21 passengers and 2 other crewmembers. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the captain to monitor properly the aircraft’s fuel state and to properly respond to the low fuel st...

People have an inherent tendency to view events as being more predictable than they may actually be, especially in hindsight. This predisposition is known as hindsight bias. However, putting hindsight bias aside, one should consider the discussion in the media raised by the recent Germanwings Flight 9525 air accident from a medical point of view. The probability that aircrafts are used to assis...

To determine whether actual responses of potential comforters in the community differ according to cause of death, 83 college students participated in a structured, individual interview. They were asked demographic questions about themselves, the bereaved, and the deceased, and then about various aspects of how they, and others in the community, responded to the death. Students were grouped by ...

Home visits by public health nurses with knowledge of accident prevention strategies can reduce hazards to children. Several areas in Australia are developing "safe communities" in response to a WHO project. In several towns the public health nurse delivers age-related safety information to families during routine contacts. Health visitor education in the UK is falling to respond to the challen...

car manufacturing industry accident’s rates from three major companies are analyzed. totally 1325 accidents with 4 cases of fatality were recorded. accident rates per 100 full-time workers have gradually increased from 5.3 to 8.7 during 3 years of study. most of the accidents occurred during the primary hours of the work, strains and sprains represented the most frequently occurring type of inj...

Work safety accidents that occurred in railway construction engineering could cause casualties and economic losses. Analyzing the trends causes of is helpful to reduce occurrence an accident. In this paper, 108 work accident cases from 2005 2020 are collected analyzed by statistical method. The complex network theory used construct causation model collapse analysis results show 2015 largest num...