Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?
...ecurity. An over-relaxed comfort level can lead to motorists driving at unsafe speeds, distracted, fatigued, unbelted or impaired, all of which increase the likelihood of a crash. Additionally, emergency response time to a rural crash and hospital transport can be lengthy and thus jeopardize survival rate. Cra...Society for Prevention Research meeting May 30-June 1, Washington, D.C.
... A national effort surveying nighttime and daytime motorists will be launched in the fall of 2007 to determine alcohol and drug use by motorists. This is the first time the survey will take advantage of oral fluid analysis to collect information on drug use. Details of how the survey will be conducted will be ...Leading prevention researchers meeting in Washington, D.C., May 30-June 1, 2007
... A national effort surveying nighttime and daytime motorists will be launched in the fall of 2007 to determine alcohol and drug use by motorists. This is the first time the survey will take advantage of oral fluid analysis to collect information on drug use. Details of how the survey will be conducted will be ...Family and friends set the speedo
...research project I will be talking one-on-one with motorists about their driving behaviour and examining the range of factors that influence their decision to speed."...Speedsters' traffic fines fund new research on spinal cord injury
...rojects and continue promising research, thanks to motorists in New York State who push the gas pedal a little ...gram, created in 1998, uses fines paid by speeding motorists to fund research into spinal cord injury, whose number-one cause nationwide is motor vehicle acciden...Drivers on cell phones are as bad as drunks
... psychologists have published a study showing that motorists who talk on handheld or hands-free cellular phones...ews says he and Strayer compared the impairment of motorists using cell phones to drivers with a 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level because they wanted to determin...Promoting seat belt use among black motorists
...tes. In states with secondary seatbelt laws, where motorists can be cited for a seatbelt law violation only if ...ts than whites. In states with primary laws, where motorists can be stopped solely for not wearing a seat belt, the disparity disappears. Although 49 states (all...Statewide study reveals new data on risks and consequences of seatbelt non-use
...n 2002. When compared to seatbelt users, Wisconsin motorists who didn't use seatbelts were more likely to suffer severe injuries and require hospitalization, according to Allen's preceptor, Stephen Hargarten, M.D., M.P.H, professor and chairman of emergency medicine and director of the Injury Research Center. ...