Formal education education is an essential part in the process of teaching people how to drive. Driving schools are crucial as they are the educational institutions tasked with providing the relevant education that learners need in order to become competent drivers. Because this education is vital in driver socialisation, it has to be structured and carried out in a way that ensures maximum affectivity. This education is essential in ensuring that learners acquire all the relevant driving skills. The aim of this study, therefore, was to evaluate the current formal driver education in South Africa - i.e. the K53 licensing system - in order to determine whether it can socialise learner drivers into being capable drivers. It has been argued in literature that young novice drivers are the most at risk with regard to motor vehicle accidents even though they have just received their formal driver education. They are most at risk because of their inexperience in driving, immaturity and risk-taking behaviour. For this reason the sample of the study consisted of new driver between the ages 18 and 23 with no more than 5 years experience. The study was conducted in Durban, South Africa. This study found that even though the respondents have driven for no more than five years 23% of them have already been involved in motor vehicle accidents where they were drivers since receiving their driving licences. Although a minority of these respondents reported being trained in most road and traffic conditions as well as in safety procedures (confirmed by driving school instructors), the types of accidents that they were involved in indicate that they were not able to use the information that they reportedly gained from driver training. This indicated that there is a problem with either what they were taught or how they were taught. A review of the K 53 licensing system by the Department of Transport found many flaws with the system, mainly with its design as well as loopholes that allowed driving schools to manipulate the process. shortcomings impact negatively on driver socialisation and driver behaviour thereafter. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, [2005]

Introduction Road traffic collisions in developing countries contribute towards the greatest burden of disabilities and fatalities globally. Concern has arisen about the high proportion of pedestrians involved in collisions in South Africa. Aim This study describes the epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians in eThekwini Municipality from 2001 to 2006, aiming to identify opportunities for prevention and informing policy. Methods An analytic cross-sectional study design was used. Data was obtained from the eThekwini Transport Authority database (police accident reports), and the Nationallnjury Mortality Surveillance System (mortuary reports). Exposure variables included pedestrian and drivers' demographics and collision environment. Death and injury were the outcome variables measured. Population data was obtained from Statistics South Africa. Results Pedestrians' injuries decreased from 7 445 to 6 288 (incidence risk: 241 to 193 per 100 000) from 200 I to 2006. Annual case fatality rose from 4.9% (366 deaths in 200 I) to 6.8% (430 deaths in 2006). Child pedestrians aged 5 to 9 years had a 77% increased risk of injury relative to other children. The fatality risk ratio of male to female pedestrians was 3.8 (95% Confidence Interval: 1.7 to 9.3). Male drivers aged 30 to 34 years had a 68% increased collision risk relative to all other male drivers and eight times (Incidence risk ratio: 8.0; 95% Confidence Interval: 6.2 to 10.3) the risk of female drivers. Only 3.4% of collisions occurred on freeways but accounted for 19.6% of pedestrian fatalities. Few (1.5%) collisions involving pedestrians occurred at night in unlit conditions but constituted more than four times the number of fatalities as number of collisions in these conditions. / Thesis (MMed.)- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.

No abstract available. / Thesis (MMed)-University of Natal, Durban, 1993.

Generally, the thesis relates modern technological developments in air traffic and air traffic control services to their legal regulation. It discusses the possible ways in which the liability of air tratfic control agencies could be regulated internationally. [...]

This Dissertation includes a statistical analysis of traffic accidents followed by a test to know the effect of new pavement on traffic safety. The accident data is considered for the roads those are in Region South-East Sweden that got new pavement during the year 2001. In Sweden, this is the fourth study concerning the before and after effect of the new pavement. Johansson (1997) studied the change in the number of accidents between the before-years and after-years. Tholén (1999) and Velin et al (2002) have additionally compared the change with the change in the number of accidents in a reference road network (also called control sites) consisting of all public roads in Region West Sweden which were not resurfaced during the study period.

Darbe tiriamos eismo įvykio schemos braižymo ir eismo įvykio deklaracijos užpildymo automatizavimo galimybės. Tirtos šios kryptys: • GPS ir elektroninių žemėlapių panaudojimas • Atstumo matuoklių panaudojimas • Lustinių kortelių skaitytuvų panaudojimas • Automatinis ataskaitų generavimas Sukurta eksperimentinė eismo įvykių registravimo sistema, skirta bandymų rezultatams pademonstruoti. / The subject of investigation of the work is the prospects and possibilities of automation in composing traffic accident declaration. The suggestions provided: • The employment of GPS and e-maps • Usage of distance measurement devices • Appliance of chip card readers • Automatic formation of reports An experimental traffic accident registration system, demonstrating the outcomes of the research was created.

SUMMARY Aim of the study. To evaluate the information on admissions due to injuries, accidents and poisonings to health care institutions in the major health databases. Methods. The information about injuries, accidents and poisonings has been evaluated in the certified registration forms and reports, which are filled in at the health care institutions, emergency services, medico-social expertise commission. Comparison of the records on admissions due to injuries in 2003 of the adults (16 years old and over) in the database of Lithuanian Health Information Centre and in the database of State Sickness Fund „SVEIDRA” was performed. The continuity of the data from inpatient to outpatient health care institutions was analyzed. The more detailed analysis was carried out analyzing two largest groups of traumas: head injuries (S00-S09) and arm and shoulder injuries (S40-S69) in the database of State Sickness Fund „SVEIDRA“. Morbidity rates per 1000 population were calculated. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS 11.00 for Windows. The associations between the variables were measured using the Chi-squared and the Student test. The results were considered statistically significant, when p<0.05. Results. Injuries, accidents and poisonings in most forms of the registration were coded according to the medical consequences, and only in few medical registration forms were coded according to external causes. Some forms used different codes for coding external causes, and some... [to full text]

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In conformity with the principles laid down in article 26 of the Chicago Convention and its Annex 13 concerning technical aircraft accident investigations, the United States and France respectively set up and developed their own investigation Boards, the NTSB and the BEA, which may be different by their organization and functioning but both aim at the same objective: the promotion of Air Safety. / To fulfil their complex mission in the best possible conditions and despite eventual pecuniary constraints, the pressure of the media, or the occasional tensions which may arise in case of concomitance with other investigations, the NTSB and the BEA rely on the renowned professionalism and high technical skills of their employees as well as on the participation in the investigation of members of the aeronautical industry who bring their expertise and contribute to the improvement of air safety.

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