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Child and adolescent bicycling injuries involving motor vehicle collisions.
- Source :
- Injury Epidemiology; 3/4/2019, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Background: Bicycle-related injuries are among the most common recreational injuries for children in Canada; moreover, bicycle-motor vehicle collisions often result in serious injuries. This study seeks to examine environmental, motorist, and bicyclist characteristics of bicycle-motor vehicle collisions that resulted in police reported severe injuries in youth (< 18 years old) bicyclists, in Alberta, Canada.Findings: Using Calgary and Edmonton police collision reports, 423 youth bicycle-motor vehicle collisions were identified from 2010 to 2014. Forty-three (10.2%) of these collisions resulted in major/fatal (severe) injuries. These severe injury cases were compared with the 380 youth bicycle-motor vehicle collisions resulting in minor or no injury (controls) using classification tree and logistic regression analyses. There were no driver or bicyclist characteristics with a significant effect on the odds of severe injury to youth bicyclists; however, lower odds were found on each of: divided roads with no barrier (aOR = 0.36; 95% CI: 0.13-0.97) or during peak traffic time (aOR = 0.44; 95% CI: 0.16-0.99).Conclusion: Personal and environment characteristics should be considered in future research and interventions focused on reducing severe youth bicycle-motor vehicle collision injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CYCLING injuries
CYCLING accidents
CHILDREN
CYCLISTS
POLICE reports
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21971714
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Injury Epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135041434
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-019-0185-z