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Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan
BACKGROUND: Allowing contraflow cycling on one-way streets has been reported to reduce crash risks in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Similarly, walking against traffic on roadways without sidewalks substantially improves pedestrian safety. This study examined fatalities and head injuries sustained...
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BioMed Central
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6785880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31601217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7588-1 |
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author | Pai, Chih-Wei Chen, Ping-Ling Ma, Shiao-Tzu Wu, Shan-Hong Linkov, Václav Ma, Hon-Ping |
author_facet | Pai, Chih-Wei Chen, Ping-Ling Ma, Shiao-Tzu Wu, Shan-Hong Linkov, Václav Ma, Hon-Ping |
author_sort | Pai, Chih-Wei |
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description | BACKGROUND: Allowing contraflow cycling on one-way streets has been reported to reduce crash risks in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Similarly, walking against traffic on roadways without sidewalks substantially improves pedestrian safety. This study examined fatalities and head injuries sustained by pedestrians in against-traffic and with-traffic crashes. METHODS: Using police-reported crash data in Taiwan between 2011 and 2016, fatalities and head injuries were compared for pedestrians involved in against-traffic and with-traffic crashes. RESULTS: Of the 14,382 pedestrians involved in crashes, 10,749 and 3633 pedestrians in with-traffic and against-traffic crashes, respectively, were reported. Compared with pedestrians involved in against-traffic crashes, those in with-traffic crashes were more likely to sustain fatalities and head injuries. Results of logistic regression models revealed several influential factors on pedestrian fatalities and head injuries, including elderly pedestrians, male drivers, intoxicated drivers, rural roadways, unlit streets in darkness, limited sight distance, adverse weather conditions, midnight hours, and a heavy vehicle as the crash partner. CONCLUSIONS: Pedestrians in with-traffic crashes were more likely to sustain fatalities and head injuries compared with those in against-traffic crashes. Furthermore, the negative effect of walking with traffic on injuries was more pronounced in reduced-visibility conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-67858802019-10-17 Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan Pai, Chih-Wei Chen, Ping-Ling Ma, Shiao-Tzu Wu, Shan-Hong Linkov, Václav Ma, Hon-Ping BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Allowing contraflow cycling on one-way streets has been reported to reduce crash risks in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Similarly, walking against traffic on roadways without sidewalks substantially improves pedestrian safety. This study examined fatalities and head injuries sustained by pedestrians in against-traffic and with-traffic crashes. METHODS: Using police-reported crash data in Taiwan between 2011 and 2016, fatalities and head injuries were compared for pedestrians involved in against-traffic and with-traffic crashes. RESULTS: Of the 14,382 pedestrians involved in crashes, 10,749 and 3633 pedestrians in with-traffic and against-traffic crashes, respectively, were reported. Compared with pedestrians involved in against-traffic crashes, those in with-traffic crashes were more likely to sustain fatalities and head injuries. Results of logistic regression models revealed several influential factors on pedestrian fatalities and head injuries, including elderly pedestrians, male drivers, intoxicated drivers, rural roadways, unlit streets in darkness, limited sight distance, adverse weather conditions, midnight hours, and a heavy vehicle as the crash partner. CONCLUSIONS: Pedestrians in with-traffic crashes were more likely to sustain fatalities and head injuries compared with those in against-traffic crashes. Furthermore, the negative effect of walking with traffic on injuries was more pronounced in reduced-visibility conditions. BioMed Central 2019-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6785880/ /pubmed/31601217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7588-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pai, Chih-Wei Chen, Ping-Ling Ma, Shiao-Tzu Wu, Shan-Hong Linkov, Václav Ma, Hon-Ping Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan |
title | Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan |
title_full | Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan |
title_fullStr | Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan |
title_full_unstemmed | Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan |
title_short | Walking against or with traffic? Evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in Taiwan |
title_sort | walking against or with traffic? evaluating pedestrian fatalities and head injuries in taiwan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6785880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31601217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7588-1 |
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