Abstract
BackgroundBicycle-related injuries are among the most common recreational injuries for children in Canada; moreover, bicycle-motor vehicle collisions often result in serious injuries. This study seeks to examine environmental, motorist, and bicyclist characteristics of bicycle-motor vehicle collisions that resulted in police reported severe injuries in youth (< 18 years old) bicyclists, in Alberta, Canada.FindingsUsing Calgary and Edmonton police collision reports, 423 youth bicycle-motor vehicle collisions were identified from 2010 to 2014. Forty-three (10.2%) of these collisions resulted in major/fatal (severe) injuries. These severe injury cases were compared with the 380 youth bicycle-motor vehicle collisions resulting in minor or no injury (controls) using classification tree and logistic regression analyses. There were no driver or bicyclist characteristics with a significant effect on the odds of severe injury to youth bicyclists; however, lower odds were found on each of: divided roads with no barrier (aOR = 0.36; 95% CI: 0.13–0.97) or during peak traffic time (aOR = 0.44; 95% CI: 0.16–0.99).ConclusionPersonal and environment characteristics should be considered in future research and interventions focused on reducing severe youth bicycle-motor vehicle collision injuries.
Highlights
Bicycling has physiological and environmental benefits (de Hartog et al 2010)
Personal and environment characteristics should be considered in future research and interventions focused on reducing severe youth bicycle-motor vehicle collision injuries
The aim of this study was to examine the environmental, motorist and youth characteristics of youth Bicycle-Motor Vehicle Collision (BMVC) by comparing collisions where the cyclist was reported by police to have severe injury with those who have non-severe injury, in urban environments located in Alberta, Canada
Summary
Bicycling has physiological and environmental benefits (de Hartog et al 2010). bicycling-related injuries are one of the most common causes of hospitalization for youth (< 18 years old) in Canada (Canadian Institute for Health Information 2017). It is important to keep in mind that these data have the potential to include such non-injurious events, there is a possibility of misclassification where those who do not have injury initially may have injury progress in the hours or days (2019) 6:7 following the collision This dataset captures motorists and environmental characteristics in addition to youth characteristics for bicycle-motor vehicle collisions (BMVCs). The aim of this study was to examine the environmental, motorist and youth characteristics of youth BMVCs by comparing collisions where the cyclist was reported by police to have severe injury with those who have non-severe injury, in urban environments located in Alberta, Canada. This study seeks to examine environmental, motorist, and bicyclist characteristics of bicycle-motor vehicle collisions that resulted in police reported severe injuries in youth (< 18 years old) bicyclists, in Alberta, Canada
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