scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal Article

Police response time to road crashes in south-east of Iran.

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Police arrival at the crash scene was beyond the average response time by Emergency Medical Services in Iran, and it is vital to provide quicker ways of informing the police and to have more police stations along the highways.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To investigate post-crash time management by police. METHODS: The retrospective study comprised data related to all road traffic crashes from March 2009 to March 2010 in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran. Data was retrieved from the standard national form designed for road traffic crashes completed by police officers present at the scene. SPSS 15 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The median time for police to be informed in the total 2442 accidents was 10 minutes and the police response time was 15-20 minutes for non-fatal cases, while the corresponding duration for fatal cases was 15 minutes and 30 minutes (p DISCUSSION: Police arrival at the crash scene was beyond the average response time by Emergency Medical Services in Iran. It is vital to provide quicker ways of informing the police and to have more police stations along the highways. Language: en

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Challenges of scene management in traffic collisions from the perspective of road emergency responders in East Azerbaijan, Iran

TL;DR: Each traffic collision requires an immediate and effective response, however, this involves several challenges as its process is an inter-sectoral issue and the major challenge is the lack of coordination among different responders.
Journal Article

Road Traffic Injuries – Changing Trend?

TL;DR: Saher System as discussed by the authors is a state-of-the-art traffic management system that can monitor vehicles and track them using a license plate recognition technology, which has been in development for a year and now that it is working on all main thoroughfares in the major cities, it is monitoring traffic violations as they happen.
References
More filters

A Cross-Sectional Study

TL;DR: In this paper, skeletal status was evaluated in 2850 females aged 7 to 77 yr using quantitative ultrasound (QUS amplitude-dependent speed of sound [Ad-SoS]), and the peak value (2121 m/s) was achieved in 19-yr-old females.
Journal Article

Epidemiology of deaths from injuries in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

TL;DR: A 1-year study of fatal injuries was carried out in 10 provinces of the Islamic Republic of Iran based on a population of 16 740 637 in 2000-01 and found deaths from traffic injuries are the highest in the world.
Journal ArticleDOI

Building national estimates of the burden of road traffic injuries in developing countries from all available data sources: Iran

TL;DR: While young adults are at high risk in non-fatal crashes, the elderly have the highest total death rates, largely due to pedestrian crashes, while motorised two-wheeler riders dominate hospital admissions, outpatient visits and health burden in Iran.
Journal ArticleDOI

International EMS Systems: the Nordic countries

TL;DR: Emergency medicine service (EMS) systems in the five Nordic countries have more similarities than differences, but there is a need for more fully trained specialists in EM and a nation wide physician staffed helicopter EMS (HEMS) cover.
Related Papers (5)