Road traffic accidents with injured in Colombia according to information sources: General characterization and accident typologies
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https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.9.1.3Keywords:
Subjective Driving Accidents, Driving Behavior, Objective Driving, Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Type of Injury, Type of VehicleAbstract
The aim of this paper is to describe the social dynamics of road traffic accidents – occurrence forms, consequences of accidents, victim typologies - and their relations with socio demographic variables. Data of two types were analyzed: the driving victimization survey (subjective traffic accidents) by a non-randomized sample of high school students (n =2292) from 20 main Colombian cities and official statistics of traffic injured (objective traffic accidents) in Bogotá during 2009 (n=2300). Through a cluster analysis and combining vehicle characteristics, caused damage and driver age- sex- and other actors of the road, the results showed four types of accidents: 1) personal vehicle driver, 61 year-old or older pedestrian fatality. 2) Pedestrian victim from 0 to 10 years old, injury by facial trauma. 3) Passenger or woman victim from public transportation or vehicle falling, neck injuries. 4) 21-30 year-old driver man of moto or bicycle, crash victim, leg and hand injured.
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