Abstract
AbstractThe injury of a child pedestrian by a motor vehicle is the result of a complex combination of circumstances involving elements of child behavior, the behavior of the driver of the vehicle and a host of environmental factors. This paper reports on a study of the significance of physical environmental factors on children's' pedestrian accidents, using data drawn from 786 police reports on child pedestrian accidents occurring on the Island of Montreal between October, 1980 and March, 1982. A series of statistical tests are conducted to examine the effect of temporal variables (month, day, time of day), pedestrian characteristics (age, sex), accident location descriptors (intersection, mid‐block, etc.) and environmental characteristics (adjacent land‐use, road type, etc.). Remedial measures that are expected to be most effective in reducing the incidence of child pedestrian accidents in large urban areas are proposed.
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