In Flanders, approximately 1014 accident locations are currently considered as ‘dangerous’. These ‘dangerous’ accident sites or ‘black spots’ are selected by means of their historic accident data for the period 1997-1999. More specifically; a combination of weighting values, respectively 1 for each light injury, 3 for each serious injury and 5 for each deadly injury (1_3_5), is used to rank and...

To examine the relationship of ramp design to truck accident rates, this paper presents an analysis of truck accidents in Washington State, plus a comparison to limited data from Colorado and California. We group freeway truck accidents by ramp type, accident type, and by four conflict areas of each merge or diverge ramp. We then compare these groups on the basis of truck accidents per location...

To begin a zero accident campaign for industry, the first thing is to estimate the industrial accident rate and the zero accident time systematically. This paper considers the social and technical change of the business environment after beginning the zero accident campaign through quantitative time series analysis methods. These methods include sum of squared errors (SSE), regression analysis ...

Overwinding was the main accident in lifting systems of coal mine and bucket dropping accident was the most serious overwinding accident. According to the cause and mechanism of the bucket dropping accident in main shaft hoisting systems, the conclusion that overloading promotion was the main cause of bucket crash accident was obtained with the fault tree analysis method. One theoretical analys...

The identi®cation of the type of accident during the early stages of an accident in a nuclear power plant is crucial for the selection of the appropriate response actions. A plant accident can be identi®ed by its time-dependent patterns, related to the principal variables. The Hidden Markov Model (HMM) can be applied to accident identi®cation, which is a spatial and temporal pattern-recognition...

Objective Patients admitted as emergencies to hospitals at the weekend have higher death rates than patients admitted on weekdays. This may be because the restricted service availability at weekends leads to selection of patients with greater average severity of illness. We examined volumes and rates of hospital admissions and deaths across the week for patients presenting to emergency services...

This paper presents a semantic case-based reasoning framework for text categorization. Text categorization is the task of classifying text documents under predefined categories. Accidentology is our application field and the goal of our framework is to classify documents describing real road accidents under predefined road accident prototypes, which also are described by text documents. Acciden...

death is not the worst accident but sometimes birthday turns into a bad accident. in the problem of unwanted or disabled child as a result of medical fault, there have been doubts about the responsibility and opportunity to claim damages for years. but now the responsibility accepted by courts in different countries; parents according to contractual liability and disabled children according to ...

In Belgium, traffic safety is currently one of the government’s highest priorities. Identifying and profiling black spots and black zones in terms of accident related data and location characteristics must provide new insights into the complexity and causes of road accidents which, in turn, provide valuable input for government actions. In this paper, association rules are used to identify acci...

Hydrocephalus is a common condition of accumulation cerebral spinal fluid in the ventricular system. Generally, infants show with progressive macrocephaly or signs and symptoms intracranial hypertension. The shunt represents important treatment hydrocephalus. However, it can occur some complications. authors report case an accident catheter removal infant, which choroid plexus was removed by ac...