background: in recent decades, ‎due to the increase in users of roads and inadequate attention to the creation and development of appropriate passageways for traffic, there has been a growing trend in traffic accidents and casualties caused by them. the traffic accidents among pedestrians to take necessary measures in a timely fashion should be well studied. this study was conducted with the go...

conclusions urban rtas are one of the most important problems in kashan and aran-bidgol cities, which impose a great economic burden on health system. motorcyclists are the most vulnerable victims and multiple trauma and head injury are seen among them extensively. patients and methods during a retrospective study, data including age, sex, injury type and pattern, outcome, hospital stay and tre...

islamic republic of iran, considering specified guidelines in the horizon of the perspective, as pays attention to annually reducing the maximum number of traffic deaths, tries to minimize the rate of traffic fatalities until 2025 horizon. in order to reduce traffic injuries, iranian traffic police ,through preparing resources, inter-organizational coordinations, using modern technologies, usin...

conclusions this study showed that gender, education level, occupation, socioeconomic status, medical care, health condition, lifestyle, family conflict, drug abuse history, and religious attitudes are the major social factors of risky driving on the intercity roads of tehran province. background traffic accidents are the major cause of injuries that endanger the lives of many people annually. ...

It is now generally accepted that the epidemiologic approach to causes of accidents is one of the most promising methods for overcoming the difficulties in the study of accidents. 1-5) According to this view , data of 1,841 accidental injuries which occurred among primary school children in Kyoto City from April, 1963 until, March, 1964 have been epidemiologically studied. The data used are rep...

Young drivers, especially males, have relatively more accidents than other drivers. Young driver accidents also have somewhat different characteristics to those of other drivers; they include single vehicle accidents involving loss of control; excess speed for conditions; accidents during darkness; accidents on single carriageway rural roads; and accidents while making cross-flow turns (i.e. tu...