Progress in pedestrian safety research

Tiwari, Geetam

doi:10.1080/17457300.2020.1720255

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“…Although road safety interventions for children are effective in increasing knowledge about safety, they do not improve traffic behavior [20]. Studies have suggested that speed control through active measures has the greatest benefit, and education and training programs for altering pedestrian behavior on the road have the least benefits based on pedestrian behavior (e.g., gap acceptance, preference of route choice, and location for crossing the road) [21]. Children have a limited sensory or cognitive ability to cope with modern traffic.…”

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Factors Affecting Death and Severe Injury in Child Motor Vehicle Passengers

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Saving children from motor vehicle collisions is a high priority because the injury rate among motor vehicle passengers has been increasing in Japan. This study aimed to examine the factors that influence death and serious injury in child motor vehicle passengers to establish effective preventive measures. To identify these factors, we performed a retrospective study using a nationwide medical database. The data of child motor vehicle passengers younger than 15 years (n = 1084) were obtained from the Japanese Trauma Data Bank, registered from 2004 to 2019. Physiological variables, outcomes, and injury severity were compared between fatal and non-fatal patients and between those with and without severe injuries. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to determine factors affecting fatality and severe injury. The Glasgow Coma Scale score (odds ratio (OR): 1.964), body temperature (OR: 2.578), and the Abbreviated Injury Scale score of the head (OR: 0.287) were identified as independent predictors of a non-fatal outcome. Systolic blood pressure (OR: 1.012), the Glasgow Coma Scale score (OR: 0.705), and Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma positivity (OR: 3.236) were identified as independent predictors of having severe injury. Decreasing the severity of head injury is the highest priority for child motor vehicle passengers to prevent fatality and severe injury.

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Factors Affecting Death and Severe Injury in Child Motor Vehicle Passengers

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“…With the development of technology, the quality of roads and vehicles has been improved; however, as an integral part of the road traffic system, human behaviors are an influential factor in road traffic collisions. Since the first recorded pedestrian fatality in 1899, more than 300,000 pedestrians have died in traffic crashes in the US alone [ 1 ]. According to the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (TMBMPS), in 2010 there were 16,281 pedestrian deaths and around 45,000 pedestrian injuries due to traffic collisions in China [ 2 ].…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, Fatalistic Beliefs, and Pedestrian Behaviors in China

Liu

Yousaf

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Road safety has become a worldwide public health concern. Although many factors contribute to collisions, pedestrian behaviors can strongly influence road safety outcomes. This paper presents results of a survey investigating the effects of age, gender, attitudes towards road safety, fatalistic beliefs and risk perceptions on self-reported pedestrian behaviors in a Chinese example. The study was carried out on 543 participants (229 men and 314 women) from 20 provinces across China. Pedestrian behaviors were assessed by four factors: errors, violations, aggressions, and lapses. Younger people reported performing riskier pedestrian behaviors compared to older people. Gender was not an influential factor. Of the factors explored, attitudes towards road safety explained the most amount of variance in self-reported behaviors. Significant additional variance in risky pedestrian behaviors was explained by the addition of fatalistic beliefs. The differences among the effects, and the implications for road safety intervention design, are discussed. In particular, traffic managers can provide road safety education and related training activities to influence pedestrian behaviors positively.

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“…The subject of forensic expertise is representedfirst of allby the body lesions observed at an accident's victim, in relation to the various situations at the scene, to the type and particularities of the vehicle, as well as to a series of additional examinations (the examination of clothes, of alcohol level; the examination of various biological traces, etc). Highly detailed and thorough examinations of the aforementioned avoid errors that may entail a wrong legal classification of the offences [2][3][4][5].…”

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Complex Mechanisms in Road Traffic Accidents Concerning Pedestrians. A Case Study

GIRLESCU¹,

DIAC²,

HUNEA³

et al. 2021

MedMater

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Pedestrian injuries vary according to vehicle type, position during the accident, and pedestrian’s age, thus determining complex aspects by associating multiple types of traumas. In forensic practice, it should be noted that the lesion-producing mechanisms recorded among pedestrians are most frequently mixed, reason for which a correct and careful examination of the victim must be supported by the characteristics of the vehicle involved in the accident, as well as by other elements at the crime scene. It is necessary to thoroughly examine the injuries, an analysis that should always be characterized by a dynamic interpretation, directly related to the mechanism of accident occurrence, with case-by-case individualization, to result in the clarification of conditions difficult to grasp at a superficial interpretation. This article aims to briefly review the main lesion mechanisms in case of pedestrians, to emphasize on the importance of understanding the complexity of these injuries, in order to elucidate – as accurately as possible – the circumstances of such an ill-fated event.

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Progress in pedestrian safety research

Cited by 45 publications

References 42 publications

Factors Affecting Death and Severe Injury in Child Motor Vehicle Passengers

Factors Affecting Death and Severe Injury in Child Motor Vehicle Passengers

Exploring the Relationship between Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, Fatalistic Beliefs, and Pedestrian Behaviors in China

Complex Mechanisms in Road Traffic Accidents Concerning Pedestrians. A Case Study

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