Disability Accidents: Types and Statistics: Publications and Documents
Summary
This comprehensive database features publications covering disability-related accidents, safety tips, and assistive technologies, along with legal rights, personal injury claims, and adaptive solutions for daily living. It includes news articles, research studies, guides, and expert analyses that offer practical insights for individuals with disabilities, seniors, caregivers, and advocates. Whether exploring fall prevention, mobility aids, accessible travel, or workplace accommodations, these resources provide valuable information that can enhance safety, independence, and quality of life. By exploring topics such as workplace safety, transportation accidents, and home-related injuries, readers can gain a better understanding of potential risks and preventive measures. It pulls together peer-reviewed studies, practical guides, and stats-driven reports, all sorted by publication date for easy browsing.Searching the Database
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| Title and Description | Ed | Publish Revised |
|---|---|---|
| How Road Design Influences Blame in Pedestrian-Vehicle Crashes Study reveals urban design's role in pedestrian-vehicle crash fault attribution, emphasizing infrastructure's impact on safety and blame. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Firearms Injure or Kill Up to 25% of Juvenile Justice Youth After Detention This study is the first to focus on the incidence rate of firearm injuries and death within the juvenile justice population. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Some US Zip Codes Deadlier for Youth Than War Zones A study puts the risk of firearm-related death in perspective and calls attention to the urgent need for violence reduction interventions in America. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Injuries From Children's Toys Researchers find an estimated 3,278,073 children were treated in United States emergency departments from 1990 through 2011 for a toy-related injury. | ||
| Health and Safety Issues Caused by Teens Distracted when Driving Journal of Adolescent Health reports on insights from investigators regarding causes of distracted driving among teenagers. | ||
| Seat Belts: Friend or Foe? Article examines possible injuries and pros and cons of wearing a seat belt in a vehicle. | ||
| Tough Mudder: An Extreme Sport Where a Lot Can Go Wrong Report on risk of injuries possibly leading to permanent disability during The Tough Mudder, an extreme sports obstacle course event. | ||
| Study Into Amusement Park Ride Injuries Study examines injuries to children related to rides including rides at amusement parks, fairs and festivals, and rides at malls, stores, restaurants and arcades. | ||
| Distracted Walking Fines for Cell Phone Users Communities are so concerned with cellphone use while walking they are starting to implement fines for distracted walking. | ||
| Generation tXt Highlights Dangers of Texting and Driving Will a ban on texting while driving lead to more crashes because drivers will conceal cell phones making it more dangerous to read and type messages. | ||
| Emergency Vehicle Location Improves Response Time Distributing emergency vehicles over 82 potential locations gave 87 percent of the population service in less than 8 minutes. | ||
| Headphone Wearing Pedestrians Struck by Cars and Trains Tripled Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled and in many cases cars or trains are sounding horns that pedestrians cannot hear leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases. | ||
| Alarming Statistics For Children Falling From Windows Information on making windows safe from children falling from high level windows, includes statistics on window fall related injuries. | ||
| Back and Spinal Injuries From Car Accidents Types of back injuries associated with car accidents including compensation claims and medical costs. | ||
| Road Safety: Stopping Death and Injury on Roads Seeking to prevent road traffic deaths and injuries which experts project will take the lives of 1.9 million people annually by 2020. | ||
| California One of the Deadliest States for Pedestrians California accounts for a significant proportion of the national data with a reported 214 pedestrian deaths and 4985 injuries in Los Angeles County alone. | ||
| Survival Rate in Vehicle Accidents Tied to Surgeon Availability Availability of surgeons is a critical factor in public health and surgery and should become an important part of the primary health care system. | ||
| Proof Motorcycle Helmets Reduce Spinal Injury Study shows the most substantial evidence yet that helmets significantly reduce cervical spine injury, which can result in paralysis. | ||
| Compensation Claims From Vehicle Accidents Anyone involved a car accident has the potential to receive compensation through a variety of sources. | ||
| How Insurers Undervalue Car Accident Claims and Delay Payments Learn common tricks insurance companies use against car accident victims and discover practical steps to protect your rights after a crash. | ✓ ✓ | |
| Are Males or Females the Cause of Most Car Accidents Males are significantly more likely to cause motor vehicle accidents than women according to recent statistics. | ||
| What to Do if Involved in a Car Accident Information explaining what steps you should take if you are involved in a car accident. | ||
| New Jersey Emergency Notification System Bill New Jersey is considering a bill that would allow NJ state residents to add emergency contact information to a database for use in the event of a car accident. | ||
| Airbags Shown to Reduce Kidney Injury in Car Crashes Journal of the American College of Surgeons study is the first to evaluate protective effect of airbags on human internal organs. | ||
| Pediatric Hospitalizations for ATV-Related Injuries More than Double All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) associated with significant and increasing number of hospitalizations for children. | ||
| Bicycle Accidents: Florida's No-Fault Insurance Law Florida unfortunately, leads the nation in the number of annual bicyclist deaths. | ||
| Whiplash Injuries and Related Neck Pain Whiplash is the name for neck sprains to the cervical, thoracic or lumbar spines and is commonly associated with vehicle accidents, usually when the vehicle has been hit in the rear. | ||
| Whiplash Injuries and Compensation Claims Are you aware of how important compensation for a whiplash injury can be as often a whiplash injury is overlooked or is under-compensated. |
Key: the first check mark indicates the publication carries an editor's note; the second indicates a footnote.
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