Acidentes de trânsito com vítimas: sub-registro, caracterização e letalidade

Abstract

In order to describe traffic accidents in a medium-sized Brazilian city and compare the risks of injury and death among different types of vehicles and pedestrians, all traffic accidents identified through police and hospital emergency records were registered for two years Deaths by such accidents were identified and confirmed through the coroner's office. The number of registered vehicles in the municipality was obtained through the State traffic authority. Morbidity and mortality rates were calculated and tests of association between selected variables performed. There was a relevant underreporting of accidents by the police (up to 53%), which varied according to the type of accident and time of occurrence. The highest case fatality rate was observed among bicyclists and pedestrians (around 5%), followed by motorcyclists (3%). Pedestrians formed the highest contingent of deaths. Motorcyclists had an eightfold risk of dying, a fourfold risk of injury, and a twofold risk of running over pedestrians as compared to automobile drivers. We conclude that pedestrians and motorcyclists are priority groups for interventions aimed at reducing injury and death from traffic accidents.

Prevalência de acidentes de trânsito auto-referidos em Rio Branco, Acre

“…The majority of studies about TA uses as information source secondary mortality data, hospital records, data from Instituto Médico Legal (IML -Coroner's Offi ce) or police reports, which are subject to underreport and information loss, 2,5 or selection biases, like in Vigitel. d…”

“…TA are relevant as they predominate in young and economically active populations, imposing high costs on the health and social security systems. 2 In Brazil, 10.6 billions of reais were spent on TA in 2003, including the several losses that they cause: production loss, damages to vehicles, rescue of the victims, judicial proceedings, medical treatment of the victims, among others. a The external causes were responsible for 127,470 deaths registered in Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade (SIM -Mortality Information System) in 2006, among which 84% corresponded to men.…”

Perfil do trabalho e acidentes de trânsito entre motociclistas de entregas em dois municípios de médio porte do Estado do Paraná, Brasil

“…A utilização da motocicleta no mercado formal ou informal de trabalho, especialmente em serviços de tele-entrega de mercadorias e documentos (motoboys) ou transporte de passageiros (mototáxis), é referida por diversos autores como possível causa para o aumento do número de ví-timas motociclistas 1,6,9,10 .…”

Trends in hospitalizations due to motorcycle accidents involving men aged 20 to 39 years in the state of Santa Catarina - Southern Brazil

“…Accidents involving motorcycles have four-fold higher chance of injury, and eight-fold higher chance of death when compared to car accidents 39 . In a motorcycle accident, the hospitalization rate can reach 11.7%, and lethality can reach 1.7%.…”