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## Objective: To examine the characteristics of childhood pedestrian injuries in the perth metropolitan area from 1980 to 1989. ## Design: Retrospective descriptive study. ## Setting: Perth metropolitan area, western australia. ## Participants: Child pedestrians aged 0 to 14 years who were injured during the period 1 january 1980 to 31 december 1989. ## Main outcome measures: An extensive database which reported fatal and non-fatal motor vehicle collisions was used to obtain details on the child pedestrian, the vehicle involved in the collision, and the environmental factors related to these injuries. ## Results: A total of 1282 child pedestrian injuries were reported in the 10 year period. children aged between 5 and 9 years, and were overrepresented among those injured. this study also demonstrated a similar proportion of injuries involving the 10-14 year age group. injuries frequently occurred mid block, on local urban roads, between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., and a greater than expected proportion of drivers involved in these collisions were in the under-21 age category. to describe the pattern of childhood pedestrian injuries we calculated both age-specific injury rates,

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Author

Mark R Stevenson; Sing Kai Lo; Beverley A Laing; Konrad D Jamrozik

Publisher

Wiley

Published

1992

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences