Motor vehicle fatalities during Memorial Day weekends, 1981–2016

OBJECTIVE: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury death in the United States, and Memorial Day weekend is one of six holiday periods with an increased number of motor vehicle fatalities in the United States. However, few motor vehicle fatality comparisons were made between Memorial Day...

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Autores principales: Tang, Yuni, Ratnapradipa, Kendra L., Xiang, Henry, Zhu, Motao
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6942355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31900213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4881-0
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Ratnapradipa, Kendra L.
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description OBJECTIVE: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury death in the United States, and Memorial Day weekend is one of six holiday periods with an increased number of motor vehicle fatalities in the United States. However, few motor vehicle fatality comparisons were made between Memorial Day weekend and non-holiday periods. Our aims were to determine which day(s) during the holiday had highest motor vehicle fatality risk compared to non-holiday travel and to identify potential risk factors. RESULTS: Of 43,457 traffic fatalities studied, 15,292 (35%) occurred during the holiday, with Saturday being deadliest but Monday having highest odds of traffic fatality. Both sexes, all years, age < 65, drivers and passengers, rural and urban, and all regions in the United States were at increased risk during the holiday versus non-holiday periods.
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spelling pubmed-69423552020-01-07 Motor vehicle fatalities during Memorial Day weekends, 1981–2016 Tang, Yuni Ratnapradipa, Kendra L. Xiang, Henry Zhu, Motao BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury death in the United States, and Memorial Day weekend is one of six holiday periods with an increased number of motor vehicle fatalities in the United States. However, few motor vehicle fatality comparisons were made between Memorial Day weekend and non-holiday periods. Our aims were to determine which day(s) during the holiday had highest motor vehicle fatality risk compared to non-holiday travel and to identify potential risk factors. RESULTS: Of 43,457 traffic fatalities studied, 15,292 (35%) occurred during the holiday, with Saturday being deadliest but Monday having highest odds of traffic fatality. Both sexes, all years, age < 65, drivers and passengers, rural and urban, and all regions in the United States were at increased risk during the holiday versus non-holiday periods. BioMed Central 2020-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6942355/ /pubmed/31900213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4881-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data.
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Xiang, Henry
Zhu, Motao
Motor vehicle fatalities during Memorial Day weekends, 1981–2016
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title_short Motor vehicle fatalities during Memorial Day weekends, 1981–2016
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6942355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31900213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4881-0
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