Table 2.
Causes of road traffic injury events
| Road user categories
| |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total N (column%) | Pedestrian N (%) | Bicyclist N (%) | Motorcycle (driver and passenger) N (%) | Passenger car (driver and passenger) N (%) | Animal-drawn vehicle (operator and passenger) N (%) | Other N (%) | χ2 | P value | |
| Mechanism of injury | |||||||||
| Total | 718 (100.0) | 105 (100.0) | 88 (100.0) | 120 (100.0) | 351 (100.0) | 39 (100.0) | 15 (100.0) | ||
| Blunt force | 546 (76.0) | ||||||||
| Contact with moving object | 345 (48.1) | 90 (85.7) | 29 (33.0) | 38 (31.7) | 184 (52.4) | 2 (5.1) | 2 (13.3) | 435.51 | <.001 |
| Contact with static object | 169 (23.5) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (5.7) | 25 (20.8) | 133 (37.9) | 1 (2.6) | 5 (33.3) | ||
| Struck by moving object before which person moved/was moved | 17 (2.4) | 10 (9.5) | 1 (1.1) | 2 (1.7) | 1 (0.3) | 3 (7.7) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Other type of blunt force | 15 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (2.5) | 8 (2.3) | 3 (7.7) | 1 (6.7) | ||
| Crushing | 21 (2.9) | 4 (3.8) | 2 (2.3) | 2 (2.3) | 11 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (13.3) | ||
| Falling, stumbling, jumping, pushed | 141 (19.6) | 1 (1.0) | 50 (56.8) | 50 (41.7) | 5 (1.4) | 30 (76.9) | 5 (33.3) | ||
| Other type of mechanism | 10 (1.4) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Place of occurence | |||||||||
| Total | 718 (100.0) | 105 (100.0) | 88 (100.0) | 120 (100.0) | 351 (100.0) | 39 (100.0) | 15 (100.0) | ||
| Streets and higways | 513 (71.4) | 53 (50.5) | 62 (70.5) | 83 (69.2) | 282 (80.3) | 21 (53.8) | 12 (80.0) | 161.424 | <.001 |
| On the crossing* | 22 | ||||||||
| Outside the crossing | 9 | ||||||||
| Side of the road | 6 | ||||||||
| Other | 8 | ||||||||
| Missing | 8 | ||||||||
| Transport area** | 17 (2.4) | 10 (9.5) | 3 (3.4) | 1 (0.8) | 2 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (6.7) | ||
| Countryside area | 21 (2.9) | 2 (1.9) | 2 (2.3) | 5 (4.2) | 1 (0.3) | 11 (28.2) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Other roadway, not further classified | 160 (22.3) | 39 (37.1) | 18 (20.5) | 30 (25.0) | 65 (18.5) | 6 (15.4) | 2 (13.3) | ||
| Unspecified | 7 (1.0) | 1 (1.0) | 3 (3.4) | 1 (0.8) | 1 (0.3) | 1 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Activity when injured | |||||||||
| Total*** | 712 (100.0) | 102 (100.0) | 88 (100.0) | 119 (100.0) | 349 (100.0) | 39 (100.0) | 15 (100.0) | ||
| Paid work | 89 (12.5) | 8 (7.8) | 13 (14.8) | 7 (5.9) | 55 (15.8) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (40.0) | 241.646 | <.001 |
| Unpaid work | 135 (19.0) | 17 (16.7) | 22 (25.0) | 20 (16.8) | 34 (9.7) | 38 (97.4) | 4 (26.7) | ||
| Other type of activity | 138 (19.4) | 34 (33.3) | 26 (29.5) | 33 (27.7) | 45 (12.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Traveling other | 350 (49.2) | 43 (42.2) | 27 (30.7) | 59 (49.6) | 215 (61.6) | 1 (2.6) | 5 (33.3) | ||
*
Information recoded from the narattive; available for half of the pedestrians suffering RTIs.
**
Transport area includes public transport area, parking area, sidewalk; it includes highway, street, or road specified and not specified as public.
***
Activity was unknown for 6 cases.