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

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)
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.