Pedestrian road casualties are a major concern in many countries. Vehicle safety systems attempt to reduce casualties and the accurate assessment of such systems is therefore essential. Passive safety assessment is well established, and additional active safety assessment has recently emerged. However, assessment methods accounting for the interaction between active and passive safety do not ex...

BACKGROUND With population aging, drivers with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are increasing; however, there is little evidence available regarding their safety. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate risk of unsafe on-road driving performance among older adults with MCI. METHOD The study was a cross-sectional observational study, set in Canberra, Australia. Participants were non-demented, current...

background and aims: traffic crashes are multi-factorial consequences caused by human factors, technical issues and environmental conditions. the present study aimed to determine epidemiology of urban traffic injuries in iran and role of some human risk factors in occurrence of such outcomes in 2010. materials and methods: through a descriptive cross-sectional study, the records of 515205 injur...

Forty-two younger (Mean age = 35) and 37 older drivers (Mean age = 77) completed four similar simulated drives. In addition, 32 younger and 30 older drivers completed a standard on-road drive in an instrumented vehicle. Performance in the simulated drives was evaluated using both electronic drive data and video-review of errors. Safety errors during the on-road drive were evaluated by a certifi...

Every 6 seconds someone is killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. With 1.3 million road deaths each year this is a global epidemic comparable to malaria or Tuberculosis. Nine in ten road deaths and injuries are in developing countries. By comparison to other global killers, road injury is neglected. Road crashes are the leading global cause of death for young people under 25 years, a...

traffic safety work is a goal common to all public authorities, police agencies and organizations in bavaria. reducing the number of traffic fatalities in a sustainable manner and continuing to lower the number of traffic accidents and road traffic injuries is a task for society as a whole. the various measures being implemented in bavaria during the road safety campaign “bayern mobil – sicher ...