Evaluating helmet-wearing of single-vehicle overspeeding motorcycle crashes: Insights from temporal instability in parsimonious pooled framework
CONCLUSIONS: More educational campaigns, regulation and enforcement, and management countermeasures should be organized for non-helmeted motorcyclists and overspeeding behavior. Such findings also provide research reference for the risk-compensating behavior and self-selected group issues under overspeeding riding considering the usage of helmets.PMID:38546458 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2024.2331644 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 28, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Chenzhu Wang Mohamed Abdel-Aty Said M Easa Fei Chen Jianchuan Cheng Arshad Jamal Source Type: research
Characteristics of injuries related to traffic crashes in Israel before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
CONCLUSIONS: The study reveals significant changes in traffic crashes characteristics during the pandemic period, including a notable increase in cyclist victims and a decrease in pedestrian incidents. These shifts may be attributed to factors such as changes in transportation patterns, increased use of bicycles for essential travel. Despite these changes, the proportion of severe crashes remained relatively consistent. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the underlying causes behind these shifts and highlight the ongoing need for public education and awareness initiatives to promote traffic safety, p...
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 28, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Yaniv Yonai Merav Ben Natan David Maman Ofir Ezra Yaron Berkovich Source Type: research
Accelerated failure time modeling of in-lane street hawkers' lane entry and exit behaviors at signalized intersections
This study analyzes the significant predictors of in-lane street hawkers' (1) lane entry within 30 s after the red signal illumination, (2) lane exit within 30 s after the green signal illumination, and (3) probability of getting injuries during the green signal time. Drone-based trajectory data were collected from a selected signalized intersection in Accra, Ghana. A Weibull accelerated failure time duration model incorporating Gamma frailty was used to evaluate hawkers' behaviors. Overall, the majority of hawkers exhibited red-light running behaviors exposing them to traffic injuries. An increase in traffic speed, especi...
Source: International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion - March 28, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Philip Kofi Alimo Lawrencia Agen-Davis Ling Wang Wanjing Ma Source Type: research
Characteristics of injuries related to traffic crashes in Israel before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
CONCLUSIONS: The study reveals significant changes in traffic crashes characteristics during the pandemic period, including a notable increase in cyclist victims and a decrease in pedestrian incidents. These shifts may be attributed to factors such as changes in transportation patterns, increased use of bicycles for essential travel. Despite these changes, the proportion of severe crashes remained relatively consistent. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the underlying causes behind these shifts and highlight the ongoing need for public education and awareness initiatives to promote traffic safety, p...
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 28, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Yaniv Yonai Merav Ben Natan David Maman Ofir Ezra Yaron Berkovich Source Type: research
Evaluating helmet-wearing of single-vehicle overspeeding motorcycle crashes: Insights from temporal instability in parsimonious pooled framework
CONCLUSIONS: More educational campaigns, regulation and enforcement, and management countermeasures should be organized for non-helmeted motorcyclists and overspeeding behavior. Such findings also provide research reference for the risk-compensating behavior and self-selected group issues under overspeeding riding considering the usage of helmets.PMID:38546458 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2024.2331644 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 28, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Chenzhu Wang Mohamed Abdel-Aty Said M Easa Fei Chen Jianchuan Cheng Arshad Jamal Source Type: research
Rib and sternum fracture risks for restrained occupants in frontal car crashes
CONCLUSIONS: Elderly and female occupants were at the highest risk and should be targeted by thoracic injury criteria and thresholds for frontal crash occupant protection. Rib and sternum fractures were not associated. Therefore, sternum fractures need to be predicted and evaluated separately from rib fractures.PMID:38546451 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2024.2329637 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 28, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Aarti Ranmal Junaid Shaikh Nils Lubbe Source Type: research
Understanding risky driving behaviors among young novice drivers in Nigeria: A latent class analysis coupled with association rule mining approach
Accid Anal Prev. 2024 Mar 26;200:107557. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2024.107557. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTraffic crashes are significant public health concern in Nigeria, particularly among young drivers. The study aims to explore the underlying pattern of risky driving behaviors and the associations with demographic factors among young drivers in Nigeria. A combined approach of Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and Association Rule Mining is applied to the dataset comprising responses from 684 young drivers who complete the "Behavior of Young Novice Drivers Scale" (BYND) questionnaires. The LCA identifies four distinct classes of...
Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - March 27, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Muwaffaq Safiyanu Labbo Lin Qu Chuan Xu Wei Bai Eskindir Ayele Atumo Xinguo Jiang Source Type: research
Understanding risky driving behaviors among young novice drivers in Nigeria: A latent class analysis coupled with association rule mining approach
Accid Anal Prev. 2024 Mar 26;200:107557. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2024.107557. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTraffic crashes are significant public health concern in Nigeria, particularly among young drivers. The study aims to explore the underlying pattern of risky driving behaviors and the associations with demographic factors among young drivers in Nigeria. A combined approach of Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and Association Rule Mining is applied to the dataset comprising responses from 684 young drivers who complete the "Behavior of Young Novice Drivers Scale" (BYND) questionnaires. The LCA identifies four distinct classes of...
Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - March 27, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Muwaffaq Safiyanu Labbo Lin Qu Chuan Xu Wei Bai Eskindir Ayele Atumo Xinguo Jiang Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2135: Research on Fault Prediction Method of Elevator Door System Based on Transfer Learning
This study proposes a GNN-LSTM-BDANN deep learning model to account for variations in elevator operating environments and sound signal acquisition methods. The proposed model utilizes the historical sound data from other elevators to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of the target elevator door system. Firstly, the opening and closing sounds of other elevators is collected, followed by the extraction of relevant sound signal characteristics including A-weighted sound pressure level, loudness, sharpness, and roughness. These features are then transformed into graph data with geometric structure representation. Subsequ...
Source: Sensors - March 27, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Jun Pan Changxu Shao Yuefang Dai Yimin Wei Wenhua Chen Zheng Lin Tags: Article Source Type: research
Visual hazardous models: A hybrid approach to investigate road hazardous events
Accid Anal Prev. 2024 Mar 25;200:107556. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2024.107556. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTRoad users (drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and Animals) are exposed to hazardous events during their commute. With 23 % of global fatalities among pedestrians, their safety continues to be a principal interest for policymakers worldwide. Owing to limited budgets available, there is a growing emphasis on data-driven stochastic models to decide on policies. However, statistical models have limitations due to crash data having redundant features, inherent heterogeneity, and unobserved characteristics. The random parameter...
Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - March 26, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Harikrishna Rangam Sathish Kumar Sivasankaran Venkatesh Balasubramanian Source Type: research
A method for generating case-specific vehicle models from a single-view vehicle image for accurate pedestrian injury reconstructions
Accid Anal Prev. 2024 Mar 25;200:107555. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2024.107555. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDeveloping vehicle finite element (FE) models that match real accident-involved vehicles is challenging. This is related to the intricate variety of geometric features and components. The current study proposes a novel method to efficiently and accurately generate case-specific buck models for car-to-pedestrian simulations. To achieve this, we implemented the vehicle side-view images to detect the horizontal position and roundness of two wheels to rectify distortions and deviations and then extracted the mid-section profi...
Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - March 26, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Qi Huang Natalia Lindgren Zhou Zhou Xiaogai Li Svein Kleiven Source Type: research
Two cases of driver death caused by airbag rupture
CONCLUSIONS: To date, there are still tens of millions of defective Takata airbags that have not been recalled for repair, posing safety risks. This article suggests taking preventive measures to avoid the occurrence of similar accidents.PMID:38517312 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2023.2234533 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 22, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Qifeng Miao Xinzhe Chen Fengchong Lan Xuan Zhao Weicheng Zhang Meichao Zhang Dawei Liu Zhenzhu Song Dongliang Liu Weidong Zhao Dongri Li Source Type: research
Two cases of driver death caused by airbag rupture
CONCLUSIONS: To date, there are still tens of millions of defective Takata airbags that have not been recalled for repair, posing safety risks. This article suggests taking preventive measures to avoid the occurrence of similar accidents.PMID:38517312 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2023.2234533 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 22, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Qifeng Miao Xinzhe Chen Fengchong Lan Xuan Zhao Weicheng Zhang Meichao Zhang Dawei Liu Zhenzhu Song Dongliang Liu Weidong Zhao Dongri Li Source Type: research
Two cases of driver death caused by airbag rupture
CONCLUSIONS: To date, there are still tens of millions of defective Takata airbags that have not been recalled for repair, posing safety risks. This article suggests taking preventive measures to avoid the occurrence of similar accidents.PMID:38517312 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2023.2234533 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 22, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Qifeng Miao Xinzhe Chen Fengchong Lan Xuan Zhao Weicheng Zhang Meichao Zhang Dawei Liu Zhenzhu Song Dongliang Liu Weidong Zhao Dongri Li Source Type: research
Two cases of driver death caused by airbag rupture
CONCLUSIONS: To date, there are still tens of millions of defective Takata airbags that have not been recalled for repair, posing safety risks. This article suggests taking preventive measures to avoid the occurrence of similar accidents.PMID:38517312 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2023.2234533 (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - March 22, 2024 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Qifeng Miao Xinzhe Chen Fengchong Lan Xuan Zhao Weicheng Zhang Meichao Zhang Dawei Liu Zhenzhu Song Dongliang Liu Weidong Zhao Dongri Li Source Type: research
