BACKGROUND This paper aims at assessing the effectiveness of the package of road safety measures implemented after road safety was included in the political agenda in the year 2004 on the number of road traffic-injured people in Spain. METHODS An evaluation study was performed using an interrupted time-series design. The study population was people injured in road traffic crashes in Spain bet...

ITE JOURNAL / SEPTEMBER 1998 DESPITE PROGRESS IN REDUCing motor vehicle crash deaths and injuries in the United States, sharp horizontal curves situated on narrow twolane highways—a common roadway design feature—pose a significant safety threat. According to data published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly 80 percent of all fatal crashes in the United States occur on...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the change in incidence rates of road traffic disabilities from 1980 to 2005 in China. METHODS We employed the 2006 China National Sample Survey on Disability to derive weighted number of persons with disabilities resulting from road crashes and weighted age-gender-specific population at risk by disability occurrence year. The annual incidence rate of road traffic disabi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate post-crash time management by police. METHODS The retrospective study comprised data related to all road traffic crashes from March 2009 to March 2010 in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran. Data was retrieved from the standard national form designed for road traffic crashes completed by police officers present at the scene. SPSS 15 was used for statistical analy...

Numerous factors may contribute to high-severity crashes in highway work zones. Identifying these factors and then alleviating their impact is a challenging task that traffic engineers and researchers have to confront. In this study, the work zone risk factors that could increase the probability of causing fatalities when severe crashes occur were examined using a comprehensive approach. The re...

Vehicle crashes account for over one million fatalities and many more millions of injuries annually worldwide. Some roads are safer than others, so driving routes optimized for safety may reduce the number of crashes. We have developed a method to estimate the probability of a crash on any road as a function of the traffic volume, road characteristics, and environmental conditions. We trained a...

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have the potential to accomplish a major contribution to road safety. This is valid for minor crashes to very severe accidents with personal injuries. The Allianz Centre for Technology attends the development of new driver assistance systems by carrying out accident analysis and estimating the efficiency of new ADAS. In this context new ADAS from differ...

THC-positive cases (no other drugs or alcohol detected) showed an elevated relative risk compared to drug free drivers suggesting increased crash risk with recent cannabis use. When alcohol or other psychoactive drugs were also present this crash risk increased substantially. Recent use of cannabis therefore appears to be associated with an increased risk of a fatal car crash similar to a BAC o...

1 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 3 Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, 4 Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 5 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, 6...