This paper presents an accident analysis carried out for the year 1996, and evaluated the accident cost for the year 2000 by taking the inflation in to considern-tio11. It is shown that the cost of traffic accidents in Sri Lanka account for...
Introduction: An estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road traffic accidents each year, and as many as 50 million are injured, occupying 30 percent to 70 percent of orthopedic beds in developing countries hospitals. But there is limited information on the burden of RTA in Douala. Aim: ...
In 2009, Mr. Dmitry Medvedev, a former President of Russia said: “The national economy lost $175 billion from road traffic accidents [crashes] over the past 5 years. That is comparable with overall health care expenditures of the same period” (Roth 2009). Russia has undergone rapid ...
METHODS: Descriptive cross-sectional study of all deaths reported to a selected tertiary care hospital in Colombo Sri Lanka from 1 st of Janauary-2011 to 31 st of December-2012 was conducted. RESULTS: Out of 1502 postmortems 67.3% were natural deaths, 16.8% accidents, 6.1% suicides and 3.5...
Countries like India, Bangladesh, Nepal, or Sri Lanka has a high rate of a road accident. We need to know why these accidents are happening. The main reason that researchers found is that people are not aware of traffic education.The normal people and also not the drivers. Everyone should...
It fits right in the 7 hour window they said the plane was flying, and in range with the amount of fuel that would have been on board for it's flight. As you state, it's pretty remote, has a runway large enough to support it...
Safety Precautions for Reducing FORKLIFT ACCIDENTS Forklifts are constantly in motion,playing a significant role in the world of commerce.With that notion,keeping safety top of mind is critical in material ... E Johannesen - 《Ehs Today the Magazine for Environment Health & Safety Leaders》 被引...
Traffic congestion brings travel time delay,extra fuel consumption,environmental damage and an additional traffic accidents and other external costs,the model to estimate traffic congestion external costs has been developed by some research institutions at home and abroad,and certain results were achieved,...
The study attempted to identify the relationship among Number of accidents (Y), Average Daily Traffic Flow in thousands (X1), Commercial Land Use Area in Square kilometers (X2), Binary variable to represent the vicinity of intersection (X3; if yes:=1, else:=0). The following relationship ...
Motor traffic trauma has become a significant denominator of morbidity and mortality statistics in modern Sri Lanka. In 2010, 26,847 were seriously injured, and 2721 people died as a result of road traffic trauma. In 2014, nearly 38,500 road traffic accidents were reported of which 36% were...