scholarly journals A study to assess the knowledge and practice of road safety measures among undergraduate medical students of M. R. Medical College, Kalaburagi

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi R. Kalbandkeri ◽  
Boramma G. ◽  
Shreeshail Ghooli
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
The Road ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

Background: Road traffic injuries claim more than 1.25 million lives each year and have a huge impact on health and development. They are the leading cause of death among young people aged between 15 and 29 years globally. In the South East Asian region of the World Health Organization, India alone accounted for 73 percent of these Road traffic accidents (RTA) burden. The importance of road safety measures needs to be emphasized in the prevention of the road traffic accidents. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge and practice of road safety measures among undergraduate medical students.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 310 medical undergraduates of M.R. Medical College from 1st September to 1st October 2016. Data was collected using pre-tested, semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed using SPSS version 16. Statistical analysis was done using relevant statistical tests.Results: Out of the 310 students 54.19% were males and 45.81% were females. 90.9% of the participants had driving licence, 32.1% of the students had taken training for driving the car and 66% of the students did not wear helmet. Female students had high knowledge of the road safety measures when compared to male students.Conclusions: The overall knowledge of road safety measures was high among the study participants. Regarding practice behaviours they were not desirable like practice of wearing helmet and exceeding speed limit. Undertaking proper road safety measures are the best available interventions to curb the epidemic of RTA.

Financial impact of road traffic accidents on the society

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. R K Gorea
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Physical Injuries ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Financial Losses

Road traffic accidents (RTA) are a global problem resulting in deaths, physical injuries, psychological problems and financial losses. These financial damages have immediate consequences and long term consequences on the victims and their families. Different countries have different impact of road traffic accidents and therefore spend dissimilar amounts in their budgets to prevent the road traffic accidents. If the financial losses due to road traffic accidents are calculated and highlighted by the researchers, the respective governments will be willing to spend higher amount in their budgets to prevent such accidents; as governments will be able to directly see the benefits to their countries, of spending higher budget amounts. Various countries are acting differently to reduce this menace of road traffic accidents and World Health Organization (WHO) is celebrating “Decade for road safety” to reduce the accidents and thus the financial loses to the society.

Knowledge and Practice of Road Safety Rules and Regulations among Secondary School Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Sujeeta Baniya ◽  
Arati Timilsina
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Safety Rules

Road traffic accidents are increasing in alarming ways. During adolescence period driving for curiosity, careless driving, and peer pressure are most common resulting high road traffic accidents. The main objective of the study was to explore the knowledge and practice of road safety rules and regulations. A descriptive cross sectional study design was used to conduct the study. Non-probability quota sampling technique was used to select 240 respondents from 800 students of class 11 and 12 from Pokhara Secondary School. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the information from respondents. The obtained data was entered on SPSS 16 version program and analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The findings revealed that more than half (59.2%) of the respondents had moderately adequate knowledge. Nearly three-forth (70.4%) of the respondents had average practice as a pedestrian and 75.7 percent of the respondents as a driver had average practice. Only 7.5 percent of the respondents were exposed to road traffic accident and high speed was the main cause of accident. More than three quarter (75.7%) had always driven vehicles without license. There was significant association (p=0.034) between the faculty of respondents (science and management) and level of knowledge of respondents on road safety rules and regulations. The study concluded that there was moderate level of knowledge and average level of practice of both drivers and pedestrians on road safety rules and regulations among secondary school students. It therefore suggests awareness programs on road safety rules and regulations are significant or school students to promote safety.

scholarly journals Characteristic of Car Crash in North of Iraq

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Car Crash ◽  
North Iraq ◽  
Car Crashes

Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) are a significant predicament in idiom of fatality and morbidness confronting the road clients just as the Vehicles transportation and road specialists. The Iraqi populace has expanded by 45% and numeral of vehicles by 3 times during last 18 years. Subsequently, these enhancements were sadly joined with ascending the car crashes numeral, death and grimness. Besides the compassionate catastrophes, consistently, there are significant financial mislaying in north Iraq because of the pandemic of RTAs. predetermined the essential of comprehension, the synergetic agents identified with RTAs for the usage by congestion vehicles and road specialists to ameliorate the road safety road auto collisions are incidents that abruptly, unintentionally and out of the blue happen under unanticipated conditions that include in any event one mobile car and consequence in at least one road clients being slaughtered or harmed. Road auto collisions are difficult to annihilate. In any case, their commonness can be decreased to the minimum degree by means of intermittent appraisals of auto collision attributes and the most significant viewpoints for road administration to think about when structuring, planning and assessing the implementation of a road to recuperate transportation and road clients' safety. Thus, the essential target of this study is to assess car crashes in north of Iraq utilizing a review investigation of mishaps that happened from 2016–2018 mulling over the accompanying parameters: the reason for the mishap, sort and the number of vehicles engaged with the mishap, the hour of the mishap, the seriousness of the mishap, the kind of mishap and the drivers age.

scholarly journals Identification of Road Accident by using Black Spot Method Between Panthaghati to Dhalli Road

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 723-728
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Black Spots

In India road accidents are very serious problem because of large population and high traffic density of vehicles. Most of the road accidents occur mainly due to the negligence of driver and poor infrastructure only a few accidents occur due to the technical error of vehicles. The main purpose of this research paper is prevention of road traffic accidents and improvement of road safety in Shimla. Road safety is very important aspect of today’s life, so it is important that everybody should aware about road safety. To do this study a section of 12km length is chosen between Panthaghati to Dhalli in district Shimla on NH 5 where accidents black spots are identified for the section by analyzing secondary data used to prevent road accidents. In this study primary data is used for observing the road conditions and secondary data is used to find accidents black spot. Black Spot is a point or a place on the road where road accident occurs repeatedly one after another which is known as accident black spot. To identify these black spots we use weighted severity index (WSI) method. It is one the most reliable and effective method for determining the most proven accidents black spots. Shimla is a hilly area and it has narrow roads, blind curve and black spots which increase the chances of road traffic accidents. In past recent years road traffic accidents are increasing in Shimla and this study deals with identification of major issues causing road traffic accidents. This research paper helps to improve the road safety in Shimla because in this study the analysis has been done to identify the major problems responsible for gradually increasing road accidents. This research paper is also used in future research paper as reference purpose and it will also provide an overview to other researchers who want do their research on similar kind of topics.

An Integrated Information System for Road Traffic Accidents

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
Michail Vaitis ◽  
Dimitris Kavroudakis ◽  
Nikoletta Koukourouvli ◽  
Dimitrios Simos ◽  
Georgios Sarigiannis
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
High Price ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Road traffic accidents come at a high price: 1.25 million road traffic deaths occurred globally in 2013. As the road network and the environmental conditions contribute significantly in the cause of accidents, it is crucial to understand where and when they occur, in order to plan actions for road safety improvement. For this reason, the Region of the North Aegean, Greece, in collaboration with the University of the Aegean, has established a spatial database and a web-based geographic information system (webGIS) for the registration, storage, visualization and analysis of the traffic accidents occurred in its jurisdiction. In this article, besides the development and operation of the system, the authors present a spatio-temporal analysis of the data collected since 2004 for the island of Lesvos. Hot spots and risky periods were identified, leading to useful conclusions and directions for road safety improvements.

scholarly journals ROAD SAFETY AUDIT ‐ POSSIBILITY TO AVOID A DANGEROUS ROAD SECTION

Transport ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 181-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvydas Pikūnas ◽  
Vidmantas Pumputis
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Formal Procedure ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Road Safety Audit

The number of road traffic casualties is still very high, even though the number of fatalities in European countries is falling. In road traffic accidents involving personal injury, economic resources are destroyed and the productivity of economy is correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic in economus. Knowledge about the harm it does to economy is essential if measures to reduce road traffic accidents are identified and introduced. Economic evaluation of road safety measures using cost‐benefit analysis is based on the costs incurred as a result of road accidents. The avoidance of such costs represents the economic benefit of road safety measures. Road safety audit is a formal procedure for independent assessment of the accident potential and likely safety performance of a specific design for a road or traffic scheme - either new construction or alteration of an existing road.

scholarly journals Use of geo-information systems in the registration of road-traffic accidents on the roads

2021 ◽  
Vol 264 ◽  
pp. 02021
Author(s):  
Sirojiddin Yadgarov ◽  
Qurbon Muminov ◽  
Qaxramon Ergashev ◽  
Ruzigul Sayfutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Level Density ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Similar Rate ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
The Road

We come up with the use of traditional methods in recording road traffic accidents that occur on highways, which makes the YTH analysis several difficulties and shortcomings. The analysis of YTH s has been shown to be effective in the use of Geoinformation systems. In conclusion, it can be noted that international experience shows that in recent years in European countries with well-developed motorization with high GDP and the level density of the road network, a national policy, and programs in the field of road safety in the medium and long term, in addition to the General problems and methods of their solutions, identifies targets, characterizing the level of road safety. This must include experience in implementing similar programs in other countries with a similar rate of car ownership, income level of the population, the condition, and development of the road network. The level of development of the road network, which is characterized by compliance with the total length, density, distribution of roads by functional value and categories, socio-economic needs of society in road transport, plays a significant role in the formation of accidents.

scholarly journals ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Thokchom Shantajit ◽  
Chirom Ranjeev Kumar ◽  
Quazi Syed Zahiruddin
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Road traffic accidents claim over a million lives every year in the world. As per World Health Organization (WHO) it is one of the leading cause of death. India, being a rapidly developing country with expanding economy has its own issues as regarding road traffic accidents due to rapid proliferation of motorization. Road traffic accidents causes enormous morbidity and mortality and at the same time, the toll on the economy of the country as a result of it is quite heavy. Road traffic accident is a result of an interaction among different factors which include the environment, vehicle and the human being. Traditionally it is considered that road traffic accidents are accidents which are unpredictable, inevitable and not preventable. But road traffic accidents are indeed predictable and preventable in majority of the cases. This require the knowledge of factors contributing and leading to road traffic accidents. There are certain preventive measures which if adopted can lead to decrease in morbidity and mortality resulting from RTA. Hence, it is the responsibility of all to contribute in reducing road traffic accidents.Keywords: Road traffic accidents; Road traffic injuries; Roads in India, Road safety; Vehicular registration.

scholarly journals GIS Based Surveillance of Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) Risk for Rawalpindi City: A Geostatistical Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
The Road ◽  
Geostatistical Approach ◽  
Service Department ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
The City

Identification of previously existing traffic accident hotspots is the first step to ensure future road safety. The present study focused on providing GIS based geostatistical surveillance for the Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) in Rawalpindi for five years (2009-2013) to determine the high risk areas or hotspots. For this purpose, spatial autocorrelation (Moran’s I test), Standard Deviational Ellipse (SDE) and hotspot (Getis-Ord Gi*) analyses were performed on the data obtained from Punjab Emergency Service Department (Rescue 1122). Spatial clusters and hotspots identified during the research lied mostly in the Northern and Northeastern part of the study area encompassing both commercial and residential areas of the city with majority of accident hotspots being near schools, hospitals, airport and highways. The study proposed that serious steps should be taken to improve the road safety conditions in these areas and focus of Emergency Response Providers (ERPs) should be directed there. Furthermore, the integration of GIS based expertise in the Emergency department should be ensured for regular surveillance of shifts in hotspots.

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