scholarly journals A COMBINATION OF GEOSPATIAL AND CLINICAL ANALYSIS IN PREDICTING DISABILITY OUTCOME AFTER ROAD TRAFFIC INJURY (RTI) IN A DISTRICT IN MALAYSIA

2016 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W1 ◽  
pp. 361-365
Author(s):  
R. Nik Hisamuddin ◽  
R. Ruslan ◽  
N. Syed Hatim ◽  
S. M. Sharifah Mastura
Keyword(s):  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
P Value ◽  
The Road ◽  
Pediatric Age Group ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Discharge From Hospital

This was a Prospective Cohort Study commencing from July 2011 until June 2013 involving all injuries related to motor vehicle crashes (MVC) attended Emergency Departments (ED) of two tertiary centers in a district in Malaysia. Selected attributes were geospatially analyzed by using ARCGIS (by ESRI) software version 10.1 licensed to the institution and Google Map free software and multiple logistic regression was performed by using SPSS version 22.0. A total of 439 cases were recruited. The mean age (SD) of the MVC victims was 26.04 years (s.d 15.26). Male comprised of 302 (71.7%) of the cases. Motorcyclists were the commonest type of victims involved [351(80.0%)]. Hotspot MVC locations occurred at certain intersections and on roads within borough of Kenali and Binjai. The number of severely injured and polytrauma are mostly on the road network within speed limit of 60 km/hour. A person with an increase in ISS of one score had a 37 % higher odd to have disability at hospital discharge (95% CI: 1.253, 1.499, p-value < 0.001). Pediatric age group (less than 19 years of age) had 52.1% lesser odds to have disability at discharge from hospital (95% CI: 0.258, 0.889, p-value < 0.001) and patients who underwent operation for definitive management had 4.14 times odds to have disability at discharge from hospital (95% CI: 1.681, 10.218, p-value = 0.002). Overall this study has proven that GIS with a combination of traditional statistical analysis is still a powerful tool in road traffic injury (RTI) related research.

A study on Private Car Accidents

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
Abdulmajeed Alamri ◽  
Tarek M. Esmael ◽  
Sami Fawzy ◽  
Hany Hosny ◽  
Saleh Attawi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Road Traffic Accident ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Moving Vehicle ◽  
The Road ◽  
Lost Productivity ◽  
On The Road

In this study, road traffic injury (RTI) was defined as any injury resulting from a road traffic accident irrespective of severity and outcome. Road traffic accident (RTA) was defined as any crash on the road involving at least one moving vehicle, irrespective of it resulting in an injury. This could include collision with a vehicle or any non`moving object while driving/riding a vehicle, collision with a moving vehicle while walking/running/standing/ sitting on the road, or fall from a moving vehicle. The burden of road traffic accidents (RTA) is a leading cause of all trauma admissions in hospitals worldwide. Road traffic injuries cause considerable economic losses to victims, their families, and to nations as a whole. These losses arise from the cost of treatment (including rehabilitation and incident investigation) as well as reduced/lost productivity (e.g. in wages) for those killed or disabled by their injuries and for family members who need to take time off work (or school) to care for the injured. Road traffic fatality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is the highest, accounts for 4.7% of all mortalities. Road injuries also are reported to be the most serious in this country, with an accident to injury ratio of 8:6. In this study, we try to focus on some causes of the accidents in KSA, so we can implement the prevention plan.

Pedestrian Safety and the Built Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Stoker ◽  
Andrea Garfinkel-Castro ◽  
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi ◽  
Wilson Odero ◽  
Martin N. Mwangi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Pedestrian Safety ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Injury

Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety, particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic crashes in 2010. The road is a built environments that should enhance safety and security for pedestrians, but this ideal is not always the case. This article presents an overview of the evidence on the risks that pedestrians face in the built environment. This article shows that design of the roadway and development of different land uses can either increase or reduce pedestrian road traffic injury. Planners need to design or modify the built environment to minimize risk for pedestrians.

scholarly journals Identification of factors affecting the road traffic injury rate

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 735-742
Author(s):  
Gulnara Yakupova ◽  
Polina Buyvol ◽  
Vladimir Shepelev
Keyword(s):  
Road Traffic ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Injury

Aerosol pollution from internal combustion engines

1968 ◽  
Vol 307 (1489) ◽  
pp. 183-194 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
The Road ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
On The Road

Aerosols have one property that distinguishes them sharply from most other pollutants of the atmosphere. They are easily seen and recognized as pollutants. The first smoke abatement law in the United Kingdom was adopted by proclamation in 1306 during the reign of Edward I, and in 1307 a violator of the prohibition was condemned and executed (Rogers & Edelman 1962). Even from the early days of internal combustion engines the emission of smoke, ‘vapour’ and oily substances has been prohibited. The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966 presently govern emissions from motor vehicles in the United Kingdom. (These regulations are given authority by the Road Traffic Act 1930). For example, appropriate parts of the regulations stipulate, first in relation to construction, that every motor vehicle must be so constructed that it does not emit any avoidable ‘smoke or visible vapour’; and secondly in relation to use, that no vehicle may be used on the road if it emits any ‘smoke, visible vapours, grit, sparks, ashes, cinders or oily substances’ if the emission causes or is likely to cause ‘damage to any property or injury to any person’ actually on, or expected to be on, the road, or is likely to cause danger to any such person.

scholarly journals Comparison of Road Traffic Death and Injury Rates at Pedestrian Crossings in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Julius Uhlmann
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Injury Rates ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
Accident Statistics

For this study, accident statistics of 14 European countries were analysed for the number of fatalities and injuries occurring at pedestrian crossings from 2015 to 2017. The road traffic death rate (killed per 1 million inhabitants) and the road traffic injury rate (injured per 1 million inhabitants) at pedestrian crossings were calculated and compared. It was found that there are large differences between the European countries: The road traffic death rate at pedestrian crossings is the lowest in Great Britain and Germany and the highest in Poland and Lithuania. Statistical analysis showed a significant correlation between road traffic death and injury rates at pedestrian crossings.

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