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A comparison between bridge-related and non-bridge crashes: severity, vehicle involvement, and motorists' characteristics.
Traffic Inj Prev
October 2024
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.
Objectives: Bridges, though representing a small portion of transport networks by length, are still prone to traffic crashes. Despite extensive research on bridge-related crashes globally, there's a scarcity of studies exploring differences between bridge- and non-bridge-related crashes. Thus, this paper attempts to add to the current knowledge by comparing bridge-related crashes and non-bridge crashes using a case study in Victoria, Australia.
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Int J Environ Res Public Health
May 2024
Departments of Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Seatbelt use significantly reduces the risk of injury and death in vehicle crashes, but rear-seated adults are less likely to wear them compared to those in the front seat.
- A study analyzed data from nearly 1 million adults involved in crashes in New York, finding that rear-seated occupants had a 1.5 times higher mortality rate and were more often unrestrained.
- Factors like speeding, a drinking driver, and older vehicles were linked to higher injury severity, highlighting that unrestrained rear-seated occupants face greater risks than their restrained front-seated counterparts.
Study of the necessity of a speed monitoring display at the returning chicane on a freeway bypass.
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July 2024
Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Gipuzkoa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Objective: Roadwork zones represent a hazardous place within the highway system, with higher crash rates and injury severity, often due to excessive speed and noncompliance with speed limits. On freeways, a common layout is to close a full roadway and to divert traffic onto the opposite roadway, with one lane closed to accommodate the redirected traffic, by driving through the median strip. In this scenario, the second chicane can be a hazardous point if it is not correctly signaled.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRoad Traffic Injuries and the Built Environment in Bogotá, Colombia, 2015-2019: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.
J Urban Health
August 2024
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Nine in 10 road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite this disproportionate burden, few studies have examined built environment correlates of road traffic injury in these settings, including in Latin America. We examined road traffic collisions in Bogotá, Colombia, occurring between 2015 and 2019, and assessed the association between neighborhood-level built environment features and pedestrian injury and death.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSelf-management of Risk for the Prevention of Traffic Accidents from a Health Perspective: A Qualitative Study.
Hisp Health Care Int
December 2024
Departament d'infermeria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
In the world, deaths and injuries caused by traffic collisions have been considered a public health problem. In Colombia, 7.238 fatalities were recorded in 2021, with motorcycle riders representing the largest group of victims at 59.
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