Abstract
The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries (MAIS3+) in traffic, and to identify differences in the factors associated with the injury severities. The study included all motor vehicle-pedestrian accidents in Finland in 2014–2017 and exposure data from the national travel survey of 2016. The results showed a heightened fatality and serious injury rate specifically for pedestrians aged over 75 years and in rural heartland areas. Furthermore, differences were identified in the current speed limit, municipality type, lighting conditions, vehicle type, area type, accident location, and road conditions between pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries. The main implications of the study are that traffic safety measures should be tailored to local conditions and amended and redirected to account for both fatalities and serious injuries. In order to conduct comparative studies between countries and support the achievement of transport policy objectives, further harmonisation of definitions and data collection procedures for traffic accidents is needed.
Highlights
According to the European Declaration on Road Safety, the number of fatalities and serious injuries in 2030 should be halved from that in 2020 [66]
The main objective of this study was to identify the factors associated with pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries in Finland by exploiting official accident data, which since 2014 has included serious injuries reported according to MAIS3+ criteria by combining police and hospital reports
killed or seriously injured (KSI) pedestrians involved in accidents with a train (n = 7), tram (n = 4) or bicycle (n = 9) were not included, since these modes have different characteristics than motor vehicles, and the number of observations were too low to include in their own class
Summary
According to the European Declaration on Road Safety, the number of fatalities and serious injuries in 2030 should be halved from that in 2020 [66]. The target is to raise the share of active and environmentally sustainable travel, such as utility walking and cycling (i.e. for a specific purpose), by changing the properties of the transport system and the built environment [7]. In order to encourage systemic behavioural change, safety is an essential precondition for people to travel by active transport modes There is an important societal need to understand traffic safety conditions in specific areas and. Malin et al European Transport Research Review (2020) 12:29 been assessed to reduce the number of motor vehiclepedestrian accidents The built environment has an effect on the amount of walking, through variables such as mixed land use, aesthetics and walking infrastructure (e.g. [6, 35, 42])
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