Identifying Factors In Fatal Driving Accidents

Executive Summary
In 2000, 5,211 persons were killed and about 140,000 were injured in crashes
involving large trucks. The purpose of this study is to explain the unsafe driver
actions and conditions that are more likely in fatal crashes between cars and
large trucks than in fatal crashes between cars and to identify strategies for educating
motorists in safe driving [...]

Distractions In Every Day Driving Report

This study was funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington, DC. Founded in 1947, the AAA Foundation is a not-for-profit, publicly supported
charitable research and education organization dedicated to saving lives by preventing traffic crashes and reducing injuries when crashes occur. Funding for this study
was provided by voluntary contributions from the American Automobile [...]

A Message from Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health

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An epidemic of overweight and obesity is threatening Ontario’s health. I am alarmed to report that, in 2003, almost one out of every two adults in Ontario was overweight or obese. Between, 1981 and 1996, the number of obese children in Canada between the ages of seven and 13 tripled. This [...]