MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND THE SEVERITY OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS' ROAD ACCIDENTS

In this research we studied the association between commercial motor vehicle drivers' medical conditions and crash severity. Some aspects of medical condition were considered. To our knowledge, no study has ever isolated this association. The severity of a crash was measured by the total number of victims (injured and dead). We estimated nonlinear regression models (specifically, Poisson and negative binomial) which incorporated, simultaneously, information on drivers' characteristics, crash circumstances and health status, in order to isolate the association between health status and crash severity. Our results show that crashes of truck drivers with binocular vision problems and bus drivers with hypertension are more severe than those of healthy drivers. No other medical condition considered in this study was significantly associated with crash severity. Many variables describing crash circumstances were also significant.

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Authors:
- LABERGE-NADEAU, C
- Dionne, G
- Maag, U
- Desjardins, D
- Vanasse, C
- EKOE, J-M
Publication Date: 1996-1

Language

English

Media Info

Features: References; Tables;
Pagination: p. 43-51
Serial:
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Volume: 28
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0001-4575
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Bus drivers; Commercial drivers; Crash severity; Diseases and medical conditions; Nonlinear systems; Regression analysis; Truck drivers
Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00716339
Record Type: Publication
Report/Paper Numbers: HS-041 960
Files: HSL, TRIS, ATRI
Created Date: Feb 6 1996 12:00AM