Severe and Fatal Cycling Crash Injury in Britain: Time to Make Urban Cycling Safer.
Cycling
Epidemiology
Injury
Prevention
Road safety
Urban planning
Journal
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
ISSN: 1468-2869
Titre abrégé: J Urban Health
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9809909
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2022
04 2022
Historique:
accepted:
01
02
2022
pubmed:
13
3
2022
medline:
27
4
2022
entrez:
12
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Pedal cycling is advocated for increasing physical activity and promoting health and wellbeing. However, whilst some countries have achieved zero cyclist deaths on their roads, this is not the case for Great Britain (GB). A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was conducted of STATS19 cyclist crash data, a dataset of all police-reported traffic crashes in GB. Information about crash location, casualty, driver and vehicles involved were included as predictors of casualty severity (fatal or severe vs. slight). Sixteen thousand one hundred seventy pedal cycle crashes were reported during 2018. Severe or fatal cyclist crash injury was associated with increasing age of the cyclist (35-39 years, OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.73; 55-59 years, OR 1.73, 95% CI 1.35 to 2.2; 70 years and over, OR 2.87, 95% CI 2.12 to 3.87), higher road speed limits (50 MPH OR 2.10, 95% CI 1.43 to 3.07; 70 MPH OR 4.12, 95% CI 2.12 to 8.03), the involvement of goods vehicles (OR 2.08, 95% CI 1.30 to 3.33) and the months of May and June (OR 1.34 to 1.36, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.73). Urban planning that includes physical separation of pedal cyclists from other road users, raising awareness around the risks from goods vehicles and reducing road speed should be the urgent focus of interventions to increase the benefits and safety of cycling.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35277814
doi: 10.1007/s11524-022-00617-7
pii: 10.1007/s11524-022-00617-7
pmc: PMC8916078
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
334-343Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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