title: Video event data recording of a taxi driver used for diagnosis of epilepsy.
abstract: A video event data recorder (VEDR) in a motor vehicle records images before and after a traffic accident. This report describes a taxi driver whose seizures were recorded by VEDR, which was extremely useful for the diagnosis of epilepsy. The patient was a 63-year-old right-handed Japanese male taxi driver. He collided with a streetlight. Two years prior to this incident, he raced an engine for a long time while parked. The VEDR enabled confirmation that the accidents depended on an epileptic seizure and he was diagnosed with symptomatic localization-related epilepsy. The VEDR is useful not only for traffic accident evidence; it might also contribute to a driver's health care and road safety.
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors: Kotaro
authors: K
authors: Sakurai
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors: Junko
authors: J
authors: Yamamoto
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors: Tsugiko
authors: T
authors: Kurita
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors: Youji
authors: Y
authors: Takeda
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors: Ichiro
authors: I
authors: Kusumi
keywords: Driving; Epilepsy; Video event data recorder