Objective: The rate of road traffic accidents in Iran per capita and for the number of vehicles is much higher than the average in the world. The present study was conducted to investigate road traffic accidents in Yazd province during 2011-2015.Methods: The present study is a descriptive-analytic study in which data were obtained from data collection forms related to deaths from driving ...

Introduction: The present study aims to design a weather-based early warning system to prevent traffic accidents fatalities. Methodology: In this study, the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) was used to determine epidemic threshold. By roc curve, the Sensitivity and Specificity of temperature points were determined and, the point with highest sensitivity and specificity was selected base...

background and aim: injuries from traffic accidents are a major public health problem, and the third leading cause of mortality in people aged 1 to 40 years. each year 31.8 persons per hundred thousands of iranians are killed in car accidents. neighboring of north khorasan province with razavi khorasan, a province with a lot of pilgrims caused a large number of passengers travel via north khora...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of severe psychological trauma --that is, post-traumatic stress disorder--in children involved in everyday road traffic accidents. DESIGN 12 month prospective study. SETTING Accident and emergency department, Royal United Hospital, Bath. SUBJECTS 119 children aged 5-18 years involved in road traffic accidents and 66 children who sustained sports injur...

Traffic calming is a useful way of controlling speeds where it is unnecessarily excessive and inappropriate for the place and uses in the surroundings, (Taylor et al, 2000). There are high incidents of road carnage in Masvingo urban and its peripheral areas despite the constructed traffic calming measures.The rationality of traffic calming measures was based on the need to improve safety and en...

Road network are the life line for the movement of people and freight and plays an important role in the development of a region but road accidents cause heavy burden on financial and social setup of an economy. According to a WHO report, road accidents will become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Despite lot of effort from various agencies in curbing traffic accidents, they are on the...

Considering the recent increase in reported accidents in Kenyan roads, there is need to identify the major causes for effective interventions. Using data from The Ministry of Transport -Traffic departmenton 135,277 road accidents reported between the years 2000 and 2010, drivers and motorcyclists, pedestrians, and vehicle defects were identified as the major causes of accidents, while passenger...

BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents cause substantial morbidity and disease burden; few studies have examined their impact on disability. OBJECTIVE To estimate the magnitude and distribution of disability due to road traffic accidents according to socio-demographic variables, and its main socioeconomic and health determinants. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in community-dwellin...

conclusions planning for the prevention of traffic accidents requires standardized data. as the foundation for crash prevention efforts, existing standard data infrastructures present policymakers and government officials with a great opportunity to strengthen and integrate existing accident information systems to better track road traffic injuries and fatalities. results an (mds) of a traffic ...