In Saudi Arabia the motor vehicle is the main means of transportation. Between 1971 and 1997; 564,762 people died or were injured in road traffic accidents, a figure equivalent to 3.5% of the total population in Saudi Arabia. During this period 66,914 people have died on the roads in Saudi Arabia due to road accidents, amounting to one person killed and four injured every hour. Over 65% of acci...

objectives this study aimed to measure road traffic fatality rates and years of lost life, and also to depict a view of trends in road traffic deaths from 2004 to 2010 in yazd city, a province in central iran. materials and methods this retrospective case study analyzed road traffic deaths that were classified under the v01 - v99 codes of the icd-10 in yazd province from march 2004 to march 201...

AIM To assess the prevalence of fatal road traffic accidents in Tirana, Albania, and describe their determinants. METHODS This cross-sectional study included all road traffic accidents recorded by the Traffic Police Department of Tirana district for the period 2000-2005. A structured questionnaire included information about the type of traffic accident (fatal vs non-fatal event), year of even...

introduction: traffic accidents are the 8 th cause of mortality in different countries and are expected to rise to the 3 rd rank by 2020. based on the haddon matrix numerous factors such as environment, host, and agent can affect the severity of traffic-related traumas. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the effective factors in severity of these traumas based on haddon matrix. meth...

Road traffic accidents and the resulting deaths have now emerged as one of the major safety and public health problems in urban areas all over the world. The combination of rapid urbanization and motorization has made the problem even severe for the developing cities of Asia. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is no exception. Official statistics reveal that more than ....... fatalities and ........

The efforts led by the Government of the Republic of Korea to reduce the fatalities and road traffic accidents played a major role in decreasing the fatality rate in road traffic accidents. In the past 5 years (2012-2016) the fatalities from road traffic accidents continued to decrease due to the implementation of the 7th transportation safety master plan. Table 1 and Figure 1 show that the num...

car accidents are documented as a growing public health problem in iran as well as other developing countries. generally growing number of population and vehicles are not accompanied by extending road construction programs. these could be result in high death, disability, and economic loss in such country compare to develop one. this mainly affected young person who are economically more active...

objective: to determine the patterns,complications and casualties of road traffic accidents in north west of iran during 2013 new year holidays. m e t h od s : one hundred and eighty one patients with trauma-related vehicle crashes were investigated in a cross sectional-descriptive study. we only included those road traffic accidents which were recorded during the 2013 iranian new year holidays...