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Exploring injury severity of children and adolescents involved in traffic crashes in Greece
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posted on 2021-04-01, 08:54 authored by Athanasios Theofilatos, Constantinos Antoniou, George YannisFor the purpose of exploring the factors affecting injury severity of children and adolescents involved in traffic crashes in Greece, disaggregate crash data including 13,431 involving children and adolescents from all regions of Greece for the period 2006–2015 were utilized. In order to identify factors affecting injury severity and account for potential unobserved heterogeneity, a series of mixed logit models were utilized. To explore and address potential temporal instability of crash-related risk factors, the likelihood ratio test was applied. Results indicated that night crashes, crashes outside urban areas as well as crashes involving bicycles or powered-two-wheelers are associated with higher injury severity of children and adolescents. Interestingly, crashes involving pedestrians are associated with lower injury severity than head-on collisions and run-off-road collisions with fixed objects. Side and sideswipe crashes also result in lower injury severities. The likelihood ratio test indicated that crash-related factors are instable when comparing the models utilizing data before and after 2010 respectively. This study contributes to the current knowledge in the field, as to the best of our knowledge this is the first study that addresses unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing child and adolescent injury severity. Overall, the findings of this study provide useful insights and could assist in unveiling crash risk factors and prioritize programs and measures to promote road safety of children and adolescents.
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European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754462
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)Volume
8Issue
4Pages
596-604Publisher
ElsevierVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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© Periodical Offices of Chang'an UniversityPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2020-07-15Publication date
2020-12-28Copyright date
2021ISSN
2095-7564Publisher version
Language
- en
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Dr Akis Theofilatos. Deposit date: 29 March 2021Usage metrics
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