Severity of road crashes involving pedestrians in Metro Manila, Philippines

Verzosa, Nina; Miles, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2016.06.006

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“…Female pedestrians are more likely to suffer serious injuries compared to men [9,17,22,24,26]. However, Clifton et al [13] and Abdul-Aziz et al [14] found inconsistent results in this regard.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Numerous studies show that injury severity varies according to pedestrian age [3,[8][9][10]13,14,18,22,[24][25][26]. In particular, elderly pedestrians are more likely to be seriously injured compared to those belonging to other age groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, the particular vehicles that are directly involved in pedestrian crashes play a significant role in pedestrian casualty risk. Many studies have included the type of vehicle in their analysis and have found that pedestrian injuries involving a large vehicle, such as a bus, truck, van, or SUV, are more likely to be severe than injuries from crashes involving a passenger car [9,10,18,21,25,26].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

Park

Bae²

2020

IJERPH

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Pedestrian-vehicle crashes can result in serious injury to pedestrians, who are exposed to danger when in close proximity to moving vehicles. Furthermore, these injuries can be considerably serious and even lead to death in a manner that varies depending on the pedestrian’s age. This is because the pedestrian’s physical characteristics and behaviors, particularly in relation to roads with moving vehicles, differ depending on the pedestrian’s age. This study examines the determinants of pedestrian injury severity by pedestrian age using binary logistic regression. Factors in the built environment, such as road characteristics and land use of the places where pedestrian crashes occurred, were considered, as were the accident characteristics of the pedestrians and drivers. The analysis determined that the accident characteristics of drivers and pedestrians are more influential in pedestrian-vehicle crashes than the factors of the built environmental characteristics. However, there are substantial differences in injury severity relative to the pedestrian’s age. Young pedestrians (aged under 20 years old) are more likely to suffer serious injury in school zones; however, no association between silver zones and injury severity is found for elderly pedestrians. For people in the age range of 20–39 years old, the severity of pedestrian injuries is lower in areas with more crosswalks and speed cameras. People in the age range of 40–64 years old are more likely to be injured in areas with more neighborhood streets and industrial land use. Elderly pedestrians are likely to suffer fatal injuries in areas with more traffic signals. This study finds that there are differences in the factors of pedestrian injury severity according to the age of pedestrians. Therefore, it is suggested that concrete and efficient policies related to pedestrian age are required to improve pedestrian safety and reduce pedestrian-vehicle crashes.

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Section: Accident Characteristicsmentioning

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Section: Accident Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

Park

Bae²

2020

IJERPH

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“…Both domestic and international studies have focused primarily on the severity and outcome of RTIs, generally through statistical analyses to explore influencing factors. Such factors include demographic characteristics (e.g., gender and age)[6], characteristics of road traffic accidents (e.g., time[7], geographic location[8], road condition[9], vehicle[10], and individual behaviors[11]), and clinical diagnosis and treatment (e.g., body region[12], clinical diagnosis[13], and first-aid time[14]). However, less than 50% of nations have carried out relevant research, and only 15% have developed comprehensive laws to address risk factors of RTIs.…”

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Comparison of influencing factors on outcomes of single and multiple road traffic injuries: A regional study in Shanghai, China (2011-2014)

Chen

et al. 2017

PLoS ONE

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IntroductionTo identify key intervention factors and reduce road traffic injury (RTI)-associated mortality, this study compared outcomes and influencing factors of single and multiple road traffic injuries (RTIs) in Shanghai.MethodsBased on the design of National Trauma Data Bank, this study collected demographic, injury, and outcome data from RTI patients treated at the four largest trauma centers in Shanghai from January 2011 to January 2015. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, univariate analysis, and hierarchical logistic regression analysis.ResultsAmong 2397 participants, 59.4% had a single injury, and 40.6% had multiple injuries. Most patients’ outcome was cure or improvement. For single-RTI patients, length of stay, body region, central nervous system injury, acute renal failure, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, bacterial infection, and coma were significantly related to outcome. For multiple-RTI patients, age, admission pathway, prehospital time, length of stay, number of body regions, body region, injury condition, injury severity score, and coma were significantly related to outcome.ConclusionsEmergency rescue in road traffic accidents should focus on high-risk groups (the elderly), high-incidence body regions (head, thorax, pelvis) and number of injuries, injury condition (central nervous system injury, coma, complications, admission pathway), injury severity (critically injured patients), and time factors (particularly prehospital time).

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“…In particular, pedestrians are confronting with more danger in developing countries. As the World Bank reported, approximately 70% of traffic-related fatalities occur in developing countries across the world, in which 65% involve pedestrians [5]. China, as one of the biggest developing countries, has developed rapidly over past decades, and became the second largest economy in 2010.…”

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Analyzing Pedestrian Fatality Risk in Accidents at Mid-Blocks

Chen¹,

Ma²,

Chen³

2019

JTTs

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Objective: Pedestrian safety is considered as one of the greatest concerns, especially for developing countries. In the year of 2015, about 48% pedestrian accidents with 56% fatalities occurred at mid-blocks in Beijing. Since the high frequency and fatality risk, this study focused on pedestrian accidents taking place at mid-blocks and aimed at identifying significant factors. Methods: Based on total 10,948 crash records, a binary logit model was established to explore the impact of various factors on the probability of pedestrian's death. Furthermore, first-degree interaction effects were introduced into the basic model. The Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test was used to assess the model performance. Odds ratio was calculated for categorical variables to compare significant accident conditions with the conference level. Variables within consideration in this study included weather, area type, road type, speed limit, pedestrian location, lighting condition, vehicle type, pedestrian gender and pedestrian age. Results: The calibration results of the model show that the increased fatality chances of an accident at mid-blocks are associated with normal weather, rural area, two-way divided road, crossing elsewhere in carriageway, darkness (especially for no street lighting), light vehicle, large vehicle and male pedestrian. With road speed limit increasing by 10 km/h, the probability of death accordingly increases by 46%. Older victims have higher chances of being killed in a crash. Moreover, three interaction effects are found significant: rural area and two-way divided, rural area and crossing elsewhere as well as speed limit and pedestrian age. Conclusions: This study has analyzed police accident data and identified factors significant to the death probability of pedestrians in accidents occurred at mid-blocks. Recommendations and improving measures were proposed correspondingly. Behaviors of different road users at mid-blocks should be taken into account in the future research.

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Severity of road crashes involving pedestrians in Metro Manila, Philippines

Cited by 62 publications

References 24 publications

Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

Exploring the Determinants of the Severity of Pedestrian Injuries by Pedestrian Age: A Case Study of Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea

Comparison of influencing factors on outcomes of single and multiple road traffic injuries: A regional study in Shanghai, China (2011-2014)

Analyzing Pedestrian Fatality Risk in Accidents at Mid-Blocks

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