Road traffic accidents (RTAs) have emerged as an important public health issue which needs to be tackled by a multi-disciplinary approach. The trend in RTA injuries and death is becoming alarming in countries like India. The number of fatal and disabling road accident happening is increasing day by day and is a real public health challenge for all the concerned agencies to prevent it. The appro...

Underreporting of road accidents has been widely accepted as a common phenomenon. In many developing countries this remains a critical problem as inappropriate information regarding road accidents does not provide a base to analyse its root causes. Therefore, effectiveness of implemented interventions are always questionable. In Pakistan, responsibility of collecting initial information regardi...

AIM To determine the characteristics of the Socio-medical profile of road traffic accidents in Kosovo, between 2010 and 2015 year. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. METHODS A descriptive method based on the database of road traffic accidents from the National Police of Kosovo. RESULTS In Kosovo for the period 2010-2015, on average, the yearly number of road traffic accidents is 18437 with...

Analysis of road accident is very important in a developing country. This projects aims at designing a cloud based framework for analysing road accident. The reason for accidents are because of various factors like road conditions, vehicle conditions, human driving conditions, weather conditions, experience of drivers and nature of traffic. It is highly possible that these accidents occur due t...

A large number of traffic accidents, especially those involving vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists, are due to blind spots for the driver, for example when a vehicle takes a turn with poor visibility or when a pedestrian crosses from behind a parked vehicle. In these accidents, the consequences for the vulnerable road users are dramatic. Autonomous cars have the potential to...

Patients with obstructive pulmonary disease (OSA) have an increased rate of driving accidents, perhaps due to poor vigilance or impaired cognitive skills that influence their driving ability. The authors have assessed whether patients with OSA perform differently to control subjects on a steering simulator which allows the separate assessment of the two visual tasks required for steering a car,...

The safety evaluation of a given road is frequently based only on accidents happened during recent years. However, due to random variation and rareness of accidents, accident history provides an unreliable estimate of the expected number of accidents in the future. This is even more true regarding evaluation of fatalities. Consequently, if the current safety situation is inadequately evaluated,...

background road traffic accident (rta) victims also suffer from different types of injuries and disabilities, which can affect their quality of life. they usually face with various physical, mental, and social problems. most traffic accident victims had difficulty to return to normal life. objectives this study aimed to understand the experiences of return to normal life in rta victims. patient...

conclusions blunt chest trauma from rta represents one-fifth of the total trauma admissions in qatar, with a high overall mortality. pedestrians are likely to have more severe injuries and higher fatality rates than mvc victims. specific injury prevention programs focusing on road safety should be implemented to minimize the incidence of such preventable injuries. background blunt chest trauma ...