TITLE:
Epidemiological Pattern of Road Traffic Injuries among Occupants’ Vehicles in 2012
AUTHORS:
Elaheh Ainy, Ali Khorshidi, Ayad Bahadori Monfared, Hamid Soori, Mashyaneh Haddadi
KEYWORDS:
Occupant, Injured, Death, Motor Ways, High Ways, Main Roads, Rural Roads
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Transportation Technologies,
Vol.6 No.5,
September
28,
2016
ABSTRACT: There has been no precise information regarding occupants’ status and their portion in traffic accident. By using traffic police information, epidemiological pattern of road traffic injuries among occupants’ vehicles was analyzed in 2012. It was a cross sectional study. In this study, traffic police registered data in 2012 were used. Subjects were all occupants who had accident record in 2012 (81585: 77841 injured and 3744 death). Before analyzing, various preparatory steps including data control and merging were done after which data were processed. Findings showed that the mean age of the studied population was 28.7 ± 15.11 years. The highest percentage of accident occurred among car and motorcycle occupants respectively. The risk of death among the injured aged 30 - 59 years and 60+ were 1.20 and 2.23 times more than 30 years (as reference) respectively (p