Stock market crashes are traumatic events that affect the lives of millions of people around the globe and have tremendous economic implications. Crashes are not only dramatic, but often completely unexpected. The 1987 crash, for example, was not induced by any obvious trigger. Even after the fact, it is hard to find the reason for the crash – Why did the market crash in October rather than in ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the factors affecting the severity of motor vehicles traffic crashes involving young drivers in Ontario. POPULATION Ontario young drivers, aged 16 to 20, involved in traffic crashes resulting in injury, between 1 January 1988 and 31 December 1993, on public roads in Ontario. METHODS Population based case-control study. Cases were fatal injury, major injury, and minor in...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of employee alcohol and drug use on crashes in the transit industry from 1995-2000. DESIGN Secondary analysis of federally mandated post crash and random alcohol and drug testing results. SETTING The US transit industry. SUBJECTS Transit industry employees. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Relative risk (RR), population attributable risk (PAR), and population attri...

This retrospective cohort study evaluated the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes following motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy. The authors assessed outcomes of pregnant women hospitalized for motor vehicle crashes in Washington State from 1989 to 2001 (n = 582). They used the Injury Severity Score (ISS) to classify 84 severely injured (ISS > or =9), 309 non-severely injured (ISS 1-8), and 1...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects of red light camera enforcement on per capita fatal crash rates at intersections with signal lights. METHODS From the 99 large U.S. cities with more than 200,000 residents in 2008, 14 cities were identified with red light camera enforcement programs for all of 2004-2008 but not at any time during 1992-1996, and 48 cities were identified without camera program...

To approach the goal of "Toward Zero Deaths," there is a need to develop an analysis paradigm to better understand the effects of a countermeasure on reducing the number of severe crashes. One of the goals in traffic safety research is to search for an effective treatment to reduce fatal and major injury crashes, referred to as severe crashes. To achieve this goal, the selection of promising co...

conclusions the findings of the current study will be beneficial in prevention of rtcs and its associated complications and hence will be vital for policy makers, health service managers and stakeholders. context despite considerable attention given to health statistics of road traffic crashes (rtcs), the epidemiological aspects of injuries resulting from rtcs are not fully understood in iran a...

OBJECTIVE Determine the effects of BMI on the risk of serious-to-fatal injury (Abbreviated Injury Scale ≥ 3 or AIS 3+) to different body regions for adults in frontal, nearside, farside, and rollover crashes. DESIGN AND METHODS Multivariate logistic regression analysis was applied to a probability sample of adult occupants involved in crashes generated by combining the National Automotive Sam...

In risk analysis of highway safety, severe crashes with injuries and fatalities are more emphasized because of their significant human and economic loss potential. In Wisconsin from 1999 to 2006, 4,919 crashes with injuries and fatalities occurred on highways in all adverse weather conditions: rain, fog, snow, sleet, and wind (3). Of these crashes, 1,805, approximately 37%, were crashes with in...