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. 2006 Jun;12(3):183–188. doi: 10.1136/ip.2005.010728

Table 1 Details of the most recent road traffic crashes involving a person as pedestrian or user of motorized two‐wheeled vehicle in the last one year.

Variable Variable categories Total (% of n; n = 1513) MTV* and pedestrian, M‐P (% of n; n = 33) MTV* and motorized two‐wheeler, M‐M (% of n; n = 355) MTV* and others, M‐O (% of n; n = 876) Pedestrian* and motorized two‐wheeler, P‐M (% of n; n = 153) Pedestrian* and others, P‐O (% of n; n = 96)
Age group (years)† ⩽15 57 (3.8) 0 5 (1.4) 19 (2.2) 26 (17.0) 7 (7.3)
16–20 215 (14.2) 5 (15.2) 52 (14.6) 106 (12.1) 30 (19.6) 22 (22.9)
21–30 644 (42.6) 15 (45.5) 167 (47.0) 399 (45.5) 38 (24.8) 25 (26.0)
31–40 329 (21.7) 7 (21.2) 81 (22.8) 204 (23.3) 23 (15.0) 14 (14.6)
41–50 198 (13.1) 3 (9.1) 43 (12.1) 112 (12.8) 23 (15.0) 17 (17.7)
>50 70 (4.6) 3 (9.1) 7 (2.0) 36 (4.1) 13 (8.5) 11 (11.5)
Sex† Male 1202 (79.4) 27 (81.8) 296 (83.4) 725 (82.8) 90 (58.8) 64 (66.7)
Female 311 (20.6) 6 (18.2) 59 (16.6) 151 (17.2) 63 (41.2) 32 (33.3)
Time of crash† Day 1214 (80.2) 25 (75.8) 297 (83.7) 671 (76.6) 136 (88.9) 85 (88.5)
Night 299 (19.8) 8 (24.2) 58 (16.3) 205 (23.4) 17 (11.1) 11 (11.5)
Type of crash†‡ Collision with vehicle/person 1133 (75.0) 32 (97.0) 355 (100) 499 (57.0) 153 (100) 94 (98.9)
Skidding/overturning of vehicle 270 (17.9) 0 0 270 (30.9) 0 0
Collision with a non‐moving object 54 (3.6) 0 0 54 (6.2) 0 0
Collision with an animal 28 (1.9) 0 0 28 (3.2) 0 0
Road related causes 19 (1.3) 0 0 19 (2.2) 0 0
Others 7 (0.5) 1 (3.0) 0 5 (0.6) 0 1 (1.1)
Injury† None 201 (13.3) 5 (15.2) 70 (19.7) 110 (12.6) 8 (5.2) 8 (8.3)
Minor bruises only 420 (27.8) 12 (36.4) 101 (28.5) 235 (26.8) 39 (25.5) 33 (34.4)
More than minor bruises 886 (58.6) 16 (48.5) 184 (51.8) 526 (60.0) 105 (68.6) 55 (57.3)
Death 6 (0.4) 0 0 5 (0.6) 1 (0.6) 0

*Italics denote the status of the person for whom data are presented.

†p<0.001, χ2 test.

‡Data not available for two people.