1 Department of Cultural Creativity and Digital Media Design, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Gueishan, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Republic of China. 2 Department of Multi-media and Game Science, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Gueishan, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Republic of China. 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oriental Institute of Technology, Panchiao, New Tai...

INTRODUCTION It is often implicitly or explicitly assumed in traffic accident research that drivers with accidents designated as non-culpable are a random sample from the population. However, this assumption is dependent upon differences in the criterion used for culpability. If drivers are erroneously categorized by assuming randomness, results could be grossly misleading. METHOD The assumpt...

With the rapid development of urbanization, the boom of vehicle numbers has resulted in serious traffic accidents, which led to casualties and huge economic losses. The ability to predict the risk of traffic accident is important in the prevention of the occurrence of accidents and to reduce the damages caused by accidents in a proactive way. However, traffic accident risk prediction with high ...

Background: Drinking and driving is a primary cause of traffic fatalities and it has been 8 suggested that heavy drinkers comprise a major portion of those drivers involved in drinking and 9 driving accidents. Although several experimental studies have investigated the driving behavior of 10 social drinkers or the general population under the influence of alcohol, few studies have focused on 11...

Seat belt use is an important factor in the prevention of automobile accidents involving injuries and fatalities. The current study used a multielement design to compare the "Click It or Ticket" and "Please Buckle Up--I Care" procedures. Results indicate that the Click It or Ticket prompt resulted in a 20-percentage-point increase in seat belt use, and Please Buckle Up-I Care resulted in a 14-p...