OBJECTIVE To examine the association between drinking patterns and alcohol-related traffic casualties. STUDY DESIGN Data linkage of cross-sectional survey data on alcohol consumption with official traffic casualty records. METHODS Alcohol consumption measures for usual heavy drinking and risky single occasion drinking were derived for different time segments of the day from a 7-day drinking...

OBJECTIVES To determine factors affecting the severity of moped and motorcycle injuries in Barcelona--the city with the highest number of motorcycles per inhabitants in Europe--paying special attention to differences across vehicle type and to the role of congestion in a city that has promoted powered two-wheelers (PTWs) to alleviate traffic density. METHOD Drawing on Barcelona's local police...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of British Summer Time (BST) on road traffic accident casualties and to analyse whether the introduction of year round BST would result in reductions in casualty numbers. DESIGN A comparative study of road traffic accident data from before and after the onset of BST. SETTING The county of Cheshire. SUBJECT Data from a total of 4185 casualties from the period...

Road traffic casualties ( RTC) present a major health problem in Iran with a significant number of death and injuries among drivers, passengers and pedestrians of all ages. The purpose of this study was to achieve an understanding and knowledge about the pattern of the accident,s casualties in the city of Kerman. During one year period ( 1994-1995) all in- patient and out- patient cases referre...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effect of the introduction of 20 mph (32 km an hour) traffic speed zones on road collisions, injuries, and fatalities in London. DESIGN Observational study based on analysis of geographically coded police data on road casualties, 1986-2006. Analyses were made of longitudinal changes in counts of road injuries within each of 119 029 road segments with at least one cas...

Spatially disaggregate ward level data for England is used in an analysis of various area-wide factors on road casualties. Data on 8414 wards was input into a geographic information system that contained data on land use types, road characteristics and road casualties. Demographic data on area-wide deprivation (the index of multiple deprivation) for each ward was also included. Negative binomia...

Background: Iran has a uniquely catastrophic status for road traffic injury and fatality. Fars province has had the highest number of casualties among the other provinces in recent 5 years. For instance, there are 966 road accident fatalities in 2018. Shiraz-Kazerun road is the deadliest one in Fars province. So, to help the policymakers toward better planning, this study was established to ide...