Sökning: "major road traffic crash"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden major road traffic crash.
1. Occupant casualties in bus and coach traffic : injury and crash mechanisms
Sammanfattning : Background: The relevance of conducting this thesis is evident by the fact that bus and coach casualties have been “stubbornly stable” in Europe recent years and a need for investigating if a similar trend could be found in Sweden is therefore obvious. It was also important to add new knowledge to the bus and coach research in Sweden, since many areas were scarcely addressed. LÄS MER
2. Surviving a major bus crash : experiences from the crash and five years after
Sammanfattning : Background Major road traffic crashes (RTCs) can have a significant impact on the survivors, their family, and their friends, as well as on emergency personnel, volunteers, and others involved. However, survivors’ perspectives are rare or missing in research on major RTCs in Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Surrogate Measures of Safety with a Focus on Vulnerable Road Users : An exploration of theory, practice, exposure, and validity
Sammanfattning : Surrogate measures of safety (SMoS) are meant to function as tools to investigate traffic safety. The term surrogate indicates that these measures do not rely on crash data; instead, they focus on identifying safety critical events (or near-crashes) in traffic, which can be used as an alternative to crash records. LÄS MER
4. Toward safety promotion among road users : epidemiology and prevention of road traffic injuries in Iran
Sammanfattning : Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a major public health problem. Iran has one of the highest RTI mortality and morbidity rates in the world. LÄS MER
5. The social patterning of road traffic injuries during childhood and youth : national longitudinal register-based studies
Sammanfattning : Apart from being the primary cause of death during childhood and adolescence, scientific evidence points in the direction that road traffic injuries make a major contribution to social inequalities in health during this period of life. The aim of the thesis is to advance knowledge and understanding of social differences in road traffic injury morbidity among young people in Sweden. LÄS MER