Table 2 Details of injuries for people who were injured in and survived road traffic crashes as a pedestrian or user of motorized two‐wheeled vehicle in the last one year.
Variable | Variable categories | Number injured (% of n; n = 1306) | MTV* and pedestrian, M‐P (% of n; n = 28) | MTV* and motorized two‐wheeler, M‐M (% of n; n = 285) | MTV* and others, M‐O (% of n; n = 761) | Pedestrian* and motorized two‐wheeler, P‐M (% of n; n = 153) | Pedestrian* and others, P‐O (% of n; n = 88) |
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Place of injury† | Head/neck | 128 (9.8) | 3 (10.7) | 24 (8.4) | 88 (11.6) | 7 (4.9) | 6 (6.8) |
Face | 54 (4.1) | 2 (7.1) | 9 (3.2) | 36 (4.7) | 5 (3.5) | 2 (2.3) | |
Hand/shoulder/arm | 330 (25.3) | 9 (32.1) | 75 (26.3) | 204 (26.8) | 30 (20.8) | 12 (13.6) | |
Abdomen/stomach/chest | 10 (0.8) | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 7 (0.9) | 2 (1.4) | 0 | |
Leg/knee | 412 (31.5) | 5 (17.9) | 77 (27.0) | 246 (32.3) | 51 (35.4) | 33 (37.5) | |
Minor bruises‡ | 440 (33.7) | 12 (42.9) | 103 (36.1) | 242 (31.8) | 46 (31.9) | 37 (42.0) | |
Others | 16 (1.2) | 0 | 2 (0.7) | 12 (1.6) | 2 (1.4) | 0 | |
Sought treatment outside home§ | Yes | 995 (76.2) | 18 (64.3) | 215 (76.5) | 591 (78.0) | 118 (81.9) | 53 (63.1) |
No | 300 (23.0) | 10 (35.7) | 66 (23.5) | 167 (22.0) | 26 (18.1) | 31 (36.9) | |
Treatment provided as¶ | Outpatient | 809 (82.3) | 18 (100) | 186 (86.9) | 463 (79.7) | 102 (86.4) | 40 (76.9) |
Inpatient | 174 (17.7) | 0 | 28 (13.1) | 118 (20.3) | 16 (13.6) | 12 (23.1) | |
Returned to routine daily activities completely** | Yes | 1267 (97.0) | 28 (100) | 284 (99.6) | 739 (97.2) | 136 (94.4) | 80 (90.9) |
No | 38 (3.0) | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 21 (2.7) | 8 (5.5) | 8 (0.9) |
*Italics denote the status of the person for whom data are presented.
†For the 1306 people who had sustained injuries; the total adds to more than 1306 as multiple places of injuries were reported for some; p = 0.085, 0.569, 0.047, 0.642, 0.099, and 0.576 for head/neck, face, hand/shoulder/arm, abdomen/stomach/chest, leg/knee, and others, respectively, χ2 test.
‡Location of minor bruises on the body was not documented; p = 0.002, χ2 test.
§Data not available for 11 people; p = 0.007, χ2 test.
¶For the 995 people who had sought treatment for injuries outside home; data not available for 12; p = 0.016, χ2 test.
**Data not available for one person; p<0.001, χ2 test.