Road injuries and relaxed licensing requirements for driving light motorcycles in Spain: a time-series analysis

Pérez, Katherine; Marí-Dell’Olmo, Marc; Borrell, Carme; Nebot, Manel; Villalbí, Joan R.; Santamariña, Elena; Tobías, Aurelio

doi:10.2471/blt.08.051847

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“…Misclassification among mopeds and motorcycles has been observed previously in the police database,25 and also with injury severity data: one third of seriously injured people are classified as being slightly injured 26. The small number of missing values regarding sex (3.4%) are not expected to have significantly affected the results.…”

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Road safety in the political agenda: the impact on road traffic injuries

Novoa¹,

Pérez²,

Santamariña-Rubio³

et al. 2009

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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Background This paper aims at assessing the effectiveness of the package of road safety measures implemented after road safety was included in the political agenda in the year 2004 on the number of road traffic-injured people in Spain. Methods An evaluation study was performed using an interrupted time-series design. The study population was people injured in road traffic crashes in Spain between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2006. The road traffic crashes database of the General Directorate for Traffic was used. The dependent variable was the monthly number of people injured, stratified by sex, age, severity and type of road user. The explanatory variable (intervention) compared the post-intervention period (2004e6) with the pre-intervention period (2000e3). Quasi-Poisson regression models were adjusted, controlling for time trend and for seasonality. Results Results show a reduction in the risk of being injured for both men (RR 0.91; 95% CI 0.87 to 0.95) and women (RR 0.89; 95% CI 0.85 to 0.94). Risk reductions were observed across all age groups and all road users, except for pedestrians. Conclusions The present study suggests that prioritising road safety reduces the number of people injured in road traffic collisions.Road traffic injuries cause great mortality and morbidity worldwide.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 58%

Road safety in the political agenda: the impact on road traffic injuries

Novoa¹,

Pérez²,

Santamariña-Rubio³

et al. 2009

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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“…The effectiveness of the PPS among motorcycle riders might have been counteracted by an increase in motorcycle mobility observed since the year 2004, following the approval of a normative that enhanced motorcycle use in urban areas. 18 On nonurban roads, the PPS was associated with a reduction in risk of serious or fatal injury among car drivers only on low-speed roads, whereas on urban roads reductions were observed for car drivers, motorcycle riders (weekdays only), and moped riders. The smaller reductions in risk on nonurban roads could be related to extensive enforcement of traffic laws (e.g., speed limits) before the introduction of the PPS-by means of speed cameras, mostly installed on high-speed nonurban roads-whereas less attention has historically been paid to road safety on urban roads.…”

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“…Misclassification has been observed in the police database between mopeds and motorcycles 18 and regarding injury severity, where one third of seriously injured people are classified as being slightly injured. 25 In addition, police-collected data are known to underreport traffic collisions.…”

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Impact of the Penalty Points System on Road Traffic Injuries in Spain: A Time–Series Study

Novoa¹,

Pérez²,

Santamariña-Rubio³

et al. 2010

Am J Public Health

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Objectives. We assessed the effectiveness of the penalty points system (PPS) introduced in Spain in July 2006 in reducing traffic injuries. Methods. We performed an evaluation study with an interrupted time–series design. We stratified dependent variables—numbers of drivers involved in injury collisions and people injured in traffic collisions in Spain from 2000 to 2007 (police data)—by age, injury severity, type of road user, road type, and time of collision, and analyzed variables separately by gender. The explanatory variable (the PPS) compared the postintervention period (July 2006 to December 2007) with the preintervention period (January 2000 to June 2006). We used quasi-Poisson regression, controlling for time trend and seasonality. Results. Among men, we observed a significant risk reduction in the postintervention period for seriously injured drivers (relative risk [RR] = 0.89) and seriously injured people (RR = 0.89). The RRs among women were 0.91 (P = .095) and 0.88 (P < .05), respectively. Risk reduction was greater among male drivers, moped riders, and on urban roads. Conclusions. The PPS was associated with reduced numbers of drivers involved in injury collisions and people injured by traffic collisions in Spain.

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“…For example, the decision to allow all people licensed to drive a car to drive motorcycles with an engine capacity up to 125 cc resulted in an increase in injuries among motorcyclists. 50 Having reduced the number of injuries and deaths due to road traffic collisions between 2000 and 2010, Catalonia now faces the challenge of achieving the objectives of the United Nations' decade of action for road safety in the context of an economic crisis. Success will depend on Catalonia's continuing ability to …”

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confidence: 99%