Liability law allocates the costs of accidents among individuals. Accidental injuries are frequent in modern society. One car rear-ends another, damaging property and causing personal injury; a soda pop bottle explodes, injuring a consumer; a physician misdiagnoses a patient’s illness, resulting in medical complications when the illness is ultimately treated. Liability law has two principal goa...

This paper examines the relationship between the deer population and the number of car accidents in New York State from 2002-2012. Data collected includes information on the amount of deer hunted, the number of car accidents, and the number of hunting permits issued. This paper also involves a county level analysis within New York State of 56 counties from 2007 2012. An important part of analys...

This paper presents an architecture called PeSoV using new emerging technologies to increase the security, reliability and connectivity of motorized vehicles. Many people die because of car accidents caused by lack of attention and imprudence of car drivers. Some technologies like the standard IEEE 1609, Zigbee and a network of ranging sensors can be used as tools to help the driver to avoid ac...

Road traffic accidents, the leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults are being recognized as a growing public health problem in Jamaica. The study examines road traffic accident injuries and fatalities in Jamaica among road users, as well as by categories of fatalities, gender, motor-vehicle, time-of-day and location. In the period 2001 to 2005, the highest number of victims was b...

INTRODUCTION traffic accidents are one of the main causes of death and disability, with motorcyclists representing the great majority of both the victims and the perpetrators. OBJECTIVE this work studied the characteristics of motorcyclists injured in accidents involving motorcycles and automobiles. METHOD this study sought to interview 100 motorcyclists who had been injured in collisions b...

A 41-year-old woman presented with 2 months of dysarthria. Her history included 6 years of unsteadiness resulting in multiple falls and 10 years of intermittent urinary incontinence. She had a history of significant trauma including having been knocked over by a horse and being involved in 2 car accidents, 1 resulting in loss of consciousness and amnesia. On examination, she had finger-nose dys...

This paper aims to summarize the most reliable published data on the personal, social and economic impact of poor vision on four categories of people: children, people in the workplace , elderly and car drivers. It also highlights areas that should be further explored to raise awareness of the huge economic impact of poor vision in the world and identify some mechanisms that could help reduce t...