BACKGROUND Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) that result in one or more fatalities on the 400-series Highways represent a serious public health problem in Ontario, and were estimated to have cost $11 billion in 2004. To date, no studies have examined risk factors for fatal MVCs on Ontario's 400 series highways.The investigate how demographic and environmental risk factors are associated with fata...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 43% of all fatal accidents reported in 2001 involved a lane or road departure. There are a number of systems on the market that monitor driver lane position or use radar technology to track the position of other drivers. The majority of these systems and available research focuses on the prevention of longitudina...

BACKGROUND As a phased approach to initiating driving, graduated driver licensing restricts driving by young drivers with the aim of reducing crashes. It might increase riding with parents or on buses, which might be safer, or walking or biking, which might be more dangerous. We examined whether it increases nondriver injuries, and whether it reduces total injuries combining drivers and nondriv...

Late in the year 1999 one of us (RJW) was asked to provide expert witness evidence to a Public Inquiry that followed a fatal train crash in London (Cullen, 2001). The fundamental question was whether there was any good perceptual explanation for a driver proceeding through a red signal when on so many other occasions he and other drivers had not got it wrong. To cut short a long story, it was f...

Objective: To reexamine and refine estimates for alcohol-related relative risk of driver involvement in fatal crashes by age and sex as a function of B AC using recent data. Methods: Logistic regression was used to estimate age/sex specific relative risk of fatal crash involvement as a function of the BAC of fatally injured and surviving drivers by combining crash data from the Fatality Analysi...

Despite a trend towards increased road safety, fatal and/or serious accidents induce a significant toll each year. We work towards improved road safety through the development of an intelligent driver assistance system that monitors the driver’s performance and assists with vehicle guidance. This complex task is decomposed into subsystems including lane-keeping, obstacle avoidance, sign detecti...