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8323337

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
Child pedestrian accidents are the most common road traffic accident resulting in injury. Much of the existing work on road traffic accidents is based on analysing clusters of accidents despite evidence that child pedestrian accidents tend to be more dispersed than this. This paper analyses pedestrian accidents in 573 children aged 0-11 years by a locally derived deprivation score for the years 1988-90. The analysis shows a significantly higher accident rate in deprived areas and a dose response relationship between degree of deprivation and accident rates. At the level of individual deprivation zones a strong correlation between accident rates and the degree of deprivation has been demonstrated. It is suggested that area wide engineering and educational schemes should be targeted at areas with high accident rates. Environmental improvements based on analysis of clusters of accidents may not be the most suitable method for reducing child pedestrian accidents.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1468-2044
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
68
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
669-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Prevention of pedestrian accidents.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article