An evaluation of police reporting of road casualties

Jeffrey, Susanne; Stone, David H.; Blamey, Avril; Clark, David; Cooper, Colin; Dickson, Kwamena Sekyi; Mackenzie, Mhairi; Major, Kirsten

doi:10.1136/ip.2008.018630

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“…For example, in western Scotland, 45% of hospital admissions due to road traffic injuries were not recorded by the police. (9) Loo et al have reported that in the Hong Kong, the police-reported road accidents rate was only 58-60% of the actual rate, and that underreporting was particularly high for children (reporting rate of 34%) and cyclists (reporting rate of 33%). (10) In another study, some road traffic injuries were not reported to the police mainly because, according to respondents, it was "not necessary" or the incident was a "hit and run case".…”

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Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries in Qassim Region , Saudi Arabia : Consistency of Police and Health Data

Barrimah

Midhet²,

Sharaf³

2012

IJHS

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Abstract:Introduction: In Saudi Arabia, road traffic accidents (RTA) are becoming a serious public health problem. Police reports are designed for legal purposes with very little information on the health consequences. Also, health system data include detailed health information, but not related or linked to the data obtained police reports. Examining the consistency of these sources is vital to build an accurate surveillance system that can track the risk factors and the health consequences, as well as establishing and evaluating prevention interventions.

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Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries in Qassim Region , Saudi Arabia : Consistency of Police and Health Data

Barrimah

Midhet²,

Sharaf³

2012

IJHS

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“…Others have documented underreporting in police estimates of road traffic deaths when compared to the health sectors in many countries including China (Dandona et al 2008;Jeffrey et al 2009;Loo and Tsui 2007;McDonald et al 2009). Hu and colleagues (2011) reported that from 2002 to 2006 the policereported rate of road traffic deaths was consistently less than 62 percent of the rate obtained from MOH-VR.…”

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Road Traffic Injury in China: A Review of National Data Sources

Zhou

et al. 2012

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…Similarly, 51 % of 'Moderate' injuries, often consisting of fractures to the wrist, ribs or spine, were categorised as 'Slight' whereas the STATS20 guidelines clearly indicate that such injuries should be coded as 'Serious' casualties. These inaccuracies in the STATS19 data have been highlighted previously (Jeffrey et al 2009) but it is evident that a large proportion of casualty severities in this study were miscoded in the STATS19 data suggesting that the morbidity and casualty costs are also under-estimated. This issue has been addressed and recommendations for helping police officers to more accurately categorise injury severity at the scene are being proposed (Ward et al 2010).…”

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Injuries to older users of buses in the UK

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The increasing age of the United Kingdom (UK) population coupled with enhanced life expectancy impacts on transport-user demographics and will affect transport planning in the years ahead. Whilst passenger car use is the ultimate means of personal independence, at some point the physiological and psychological impact of age-related conditions will inevitably shift people out of their vehicles and onto public transport systems. Overall, public transport is seen to be vital for social inclusion (Lucas et al. 2008) and it is considered a safe means of mobility. However, it is important that the public and, in particular, the elderly perceive it to be so. Injuries (across a spectrum of severities) do occur during public transport use from time to time. In fact, over 5000 people are injured on UK buses each year alone with over 300 bus-users killed/seriously injured (Department for Transport 2013). This study was designed to examine the nature of injuries and their causes to older bususers with the aim being to establish where design countermeasures may be indicated. The study uses descriptive statistics to analyse linked (accident and injury) data involving a sample of older bus-users. Most incidents in the linked dataset were non-collisions (62 %) resulting in 1381 recorded injuries in those aged 60? years, of which 46 % were 'slight' and 54 %'serious'.

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An evaluation of police reporting of road casualties

Cited by 38 publications

References 11 publications

Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries in Qassim Region , Saudi Arabia : Consistency of Police and Health Data

Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries in Qassim Region , Saudi Arabia : Consistency of Police and Health Data

Road Traffic Injury in China: A Review of National Data Sources

Injuries to older users of buses in the UK

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