Risk factors for the severity of injury incurred in crashes involving on-duty police cars

Abstract

Police cars are exempted from certain traffic laws under emergency circumstances. However, to reduce the probability of being involved in a crash resulting in severe injuries, officers are still obligated to drive safely and follow safety procedures when responding to emergencies or pursuing a car. Enhancement of training techniques for emergency situations or driving in pursuit of an offender and following the safety procedures are essential for safety in driving during an emergency run by police.

A Comparison of Ordered and Unordered Response Models for Analyzing Road Traffic Injury Severities in the North-Eastern Turkey

“…Particularly, driver characteristics have been extensively considered as an important risk factor influencing road traffic accident injury severity, while the association between drivers' or other vulnerable users' age group and injury severity was highly addressed. Other most recent studies (Chu, 2015;Curry et al, 2014;Lee and Li, 2014;Ma et al, 2015;Martensen and Dupont, 2013;Weiss et al, 2014) highlighted the association between younger drivers and an injury severity increase. found that younger and mid-age drivers were less likely to be involved in more severe injuries.…”

“…Many earlier research (Chu, 2015;Chung et al, 2014;Hao and Daniel, 2014;Kim et al, 2008;Kröyer, 2015;Ma et al, 2015;Mitchell et al, 2015;Sasidharan et al, 2015) exhibited driver's violation of speed limits were extensively associated with increasing more severe injuries. The results of another earlier research revealed that speed control might have a significant impact on decreasing more severe injuries.…”

“…Evidence from earlier research (Celik and Oktay, 2014;Kim et al, 2008) revealed that road traffic accidents occurred during the evening peak were more likely to result in less severe injuries, while other studies (Abegaz et al, 2014;Chung et al, 2014;Uçar and Tatlıdil, 2007) showed the impact of driving at night on injury severities. Other past research (Chu, 2015;Khorashadi et al, 2005;Yau, 2004;Yau et al, 2006) also studied the impact of various time periods on injury severity levels. On the other hand, some earlier studies indicated that accidents occurred on either weekdays (Carson and Mannering, 2001;Rifaat et al, 2011) or weekends (Martensen and Dupont, 2013;Yau, 2004;Zhang et al, 2013) might significantly affect injury severity levels.…”

“…Indeed, dark lighting condition (Clarke et al, 2006;Wu et al, 2014) and absence of street light (Abegaz et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2008) were associated with injury severity levels. A number of studies (Carson and Mannering, 2001;Chu, 2015;Morgan and Mannering, 2011) found that that wet or snow/ice road surface were the increasing or decreasing causes of injury severities.…”

“…Many previous work (Kim et al, 2008;Ma et al, 2015;Uçar and Tatlıdil, 2007;Yasmin et al, 2014;Yulong and Chuanyun, 2014) found that collision type was significantly effective on injury severities. On the other hand, distracted driving (Behnood et al, 2014;Chu, 2015;Donmez and Liu, 2015) and falling asleep (Abegaz et al, 2014) were addressed as contributing risk factors for an increase on minor or severe injuries.…”