Paediatric low speed vehicle run-over fatalities in Queensland

Griffin, Bronwyn; Watt, Kerrianne; Wallis, Belinda; Shields, Linda; Kimble, Roy M.

doi:10.1136/ip.2010.030304

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“…4,42 Child road-traffic casualties are higher on weekdays than at weekends, with peaks corresponding to the start and end of school, and generally higher rates in the afternoons. Small numbers of child fatalities have been reported in contexts other than on public highways, including low-speed vehicle run-over fatalities in young children 43 and all-terrain vehicles driven by young people. 44 While much progress has been made in reducing transport fatalities, this remains one of the areas most amenable to further prevention through legislation, environmental modification, engineering, education and training.…”

Section: Traffic Deathsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patterns of child death in England and Wales

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Over the past century child mortality rates have fallen to very low levels in all developed countries. However, there remain wide variations both between and within countries, and in many child deaths factors can be identified which could be modified to reduce the risks of future deaths. An understanding of the nature and patterns of child death and of the factors contributing to child deaths is essential to driving preventive initiatives. This paper reports on the epidemiology of child deaths in England and Wales. It draws on available data, particularly death registration data and other available datasets, along with published literature to highlight the issues relevant to reducing child deaths in developed countries. We highlight the different patterns of mortality at different ages within five broad categories of death: perinatal causes, congenital abnormalities, acquired natural causes, external causes, and unexplained deaths. Within each category we explore what is known about the main causes of death and some of the contributory factors and highlight how this knowledge may be used to help drive prevention initiatives.

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Section: Traffic Deathsmentioning

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Patterns of child death in England and Wales

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“…Due to decreased visibility and heightened vulnerability, young children (⩽5 years) with smaller stature are more likely to be involved in LSVRO incidents (Mayr et al, 2001) and to sustain severe or fatal injuries (Nadler et al, 2001). Similar to other injury categories, boys are overrepresented in injury statistics compared to girls (Griffin et al, 2011;Nadler, et al, 2001). In terms of vehicle and environment factors, reversing vehicles and vehicles with poor rearward visibility (e.g.…”

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confidence: 95%

The development and preliminary evaluation of an education intervention to prevent driveway run-over incidents

Armstrong

Watling

Davey

2016

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Objective: While driveway run-over incidents continue to be a cause of serious injury and deaths among young children in Australia, few empirically evaluated educational interventions have been developed which address these incidents. Addressing this gap, this study describes the development and evaluation of a paper-based driveway safety intervention targeting caregivers of children aged 5 years or younger. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Method and setting: Informed by previous research, the intervention targeted key caregiver safety behaviours that address driveway risks. To assess the impact of the intervention, 137 Queensland (Australia) caregivers (95.0% women; mean age = 34.97 years) were recruited. After receiving the intervention, changes to a number of outcomes such as caregiver risk perception, safety knowledge and behavioural intentions were measured. Results: Findings indicated that the intervention had increased general and specific situational risk awareness and safety knowledge among a substantial proportion of participants. Close to one-quarter of the sample strongly agreed that the intervention had increased these outcomes. In addition, 71.6% of the sample reported that they intended to make changes to their routine in and around the driveway, as a result of reading the intervention material and a further, quarter of the participants strongly agreed that the information provided would be a help both to themselves (26.5%) and other caregivers (33.8%) to keep their children safe in the driveway. Conclusion: While the educational intervention requires further validation, findings from this study suggest that intervention content and format increases driveway safety.

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“…LSVROs are a significant cause of transport pedestrian fatalities in young children, and are the second most frequent cause of death due to unintentional injury among children aged 1–4 years in Australia 1. More recent studies14–17 have highlighted this problem as more complex than simple ‘reversing’ or ‘driveway’ injuries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To date, most studies have described fatal events where data are typically collected through coroners’ data, police reports and or child death reviews5 14 18 19 separately from non-fatal events (where data typically are collected through one or two hospitals via admission data or trauma registry data). Where non-fatal events have been described, this has been done separately for either hospital admissions,6 9 admissions to trauma centres,7 20 21 or ambulance-attended cases22—rarely are all relevant databases interrogated.…”

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“…Previous studies have highlighted that LSVROs are a particular problem among young children aged 0–4 years 1 4–7 9 10 12–14 17–20 23 26 27. A recent population-based study of fatal and non-fatal LSVRO events over an 11-year period in Queensland, Australia, indicated that the incidence in Queensland may be the highest (14.6/100 000) in the world 26.…”

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Characteristics of low-speed vehicle run-over events in children: an 11-year review

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This is the first study, to the authors' knowledge, to analyse the characteristics of fatal and non-fatal LSVRO events in children aged 0-15 years on a state-wide basis. Characteristics of LSVRO events varied with age, thus age-specific interventions are required. Children living outside major cities, and indigenous children, were over-represented in these data. Further research is required to identify the burden of injury in these groups.

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Paediatric low speed vehicle run-over fatalities in Queensland

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Patterns of child death in England and Wales

Patterns of child death in England and Wales

The development and preliminary evaluation of an education intervention to prevent driveway run-over incidents

Characteristics of low-speed vehicle run-over events in children: an 11-year review

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