worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...

In most of the developing countries, the metropolitan organizations do not assess the safety consequences of alternative transportation systems and one of the reasons is the lack of suitable methodology. The goal of this paper is to develop practical tools for assessing safety consequences of arterial roads in the context of long-term urban transportation plans in Dhaka city, the capital of Ban...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the public health benefits of traffic laws targeting speeding and drunk drivers (British Columbia, Canada, September 2010). METHODS We studied fatal crashes and ambulance dispatches and hospital admissions for road trauma, using interrupted time series with multiple nonequivalent comparison series. We determined estimates of effect using linear regression models incorp...

BACKGROUND Teenage male drivers contribute to a large number of serious road crashes despite low rates of driving and excellent physical health. We examined the amount of road trauma involving teenage male youth that might be explained by prior disruptive behavior disorders (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder). METHODS AND FINDINGS We con...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of involvement in risky driving circumstances between Guatemalan and Spanish university students and identify in both populations the differences between the involvement in such circumstances and road crashes. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted during the academic courses 2007 to 2011 on a sample of 2 13...

The NSW Centre for Road Safety is currently conducting a study to evaluate the safety performances of various unsignalised T-junction configurations on high speed rural roads in NSW. This paper summarises the results of the Stage 1 study involving Seagull T-junctions only. The findings were that two types of crashes, Right Near and Right Through, were predominant among all the crashes, and thos...

PURPOSE To evaluate the quality of epidemiological research into effects of medicinal drugs on traffic safety and the current knowledge in this area. DATA SOURCES The bibliographic search was done in Medline electronic database using the keywords: ((accident* or crash*) and traffic and drug*) leading to 1141 references. Additional references were retrieved from the Safetylit website and the r...

With improving rates of survival following road traffic injuries in many countries, healthy years of life lost due to crashes increasingly reflect the prevalence of disabling sequelae. This review examines the epidemiological evidence regarding the risk of disability due to car crashes, published between 1980 and 2002. Studies of sequelae limited to specific domains (e.g. head injury, whiplash,...

Road traffic crashes is one of the major causes death that needs to be addressed globally. Many studies have been conducted identify contributing factors and determine required preventive measures. This study evaluates 164 along a 10 kilometres section Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak. The investigated main within this road through multiple sources: based on expert site evaluation, analysis incident ...

In this month's editorial, the PLoS Medicine Editors call for better data to support policy changes that could reduce the huge global burden of death and injury from road traffic crashes.