BACKGROUND It is estimated that by 2020, road traffic crashes will have moved from ninth to third in the world ranking of burden of disease, as measured in disability adjusted life years. The prevention of road traffic injuries is of global public health importance. Measures aimed at reducing traffic speed are considered essential to preventing road injuries; the use of speed cameras is one suc...

BACKGROUND Road traffic crash is of growing public health importance worldwide contributing significantly to the global disease burden. There is paucity of published data on road traffic crashes in our local environment. This study was carried out to describe the injury characteristics and outcome of road traffic crash victims in our local setting and provide baseline data for establishment of ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the most appropriate metric to determine the effectiveness of mobile speed cameras in reducing road traffic related injuries. DESIGN Controlled before and after study which compares two methods for examining the local effectiveness of mobile speed cameras-a circular zone around the camera and a route based method to define exposure at various distances from sites. SETT...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to better characterize and evaluate drunk driving for governmental reference in order to further reduce alcohol-impaired driving. METHOD This article reports the characteristics of 1226 alcohol-positive drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or over the legal limit of 0.20 mg/mL involved in nonfatal traffic accidents in Shanghai, China, from...

ID: 321 It is believed that increasing truck volumes contribute to traffic congestion, pavement deterioration and crashes due to differences in the physical and operational characteristics of trucks and passenger cars. A 2002 US DOT report showed that the number of crashes involving commercial trucks had increased by 40.3% over the last two decades. Based on Insurance Institute for Highway Safe...

In many cases, crashes at intersections account for over 50% of all urban road accidents. The need to reduce these crashes has fostered considerable research on the development and evaluation of traffic safety at intersections. This paper introduces a micro-level behavioral method for estimating crash potential at signalized and unsignalized intersections for different traffic characteristics. ...

Purpose The study sought to estimate the effects of centreline milled rumble strips on rural two-lane roads in Sweden in a wide perspective. Traffic safety effects (i.e., fewer crashes and injuries), driver experience, and driver opinions of centreline milled rumble strip usage on rural roads are investigated. Methods To evaluate the traffic safety effects, an Empirical Bayes study comparing th...

There is a general belief that requesting driving assessments for older drivers without evidence of cognitive impairment is a poor use of resources. There is, however, limited empirical evidence to support this view. We prospectively followed 56 neurologically-healthy drivers aged 70–84 years for 24 months to determine whether a non-enforced pass or fail outcome on an on-road driving assessment...