Motor vehicle crashes and injuries in an Indian community - Arizona

Article Abstract:

During 1985 and 1986 the Whiteriver Service Unit of the Indian Health Service studied motor vehicle accidents on an Apache Reservation (White Mountain, Arizona). The data collected has been used as a baseline and the project has become a model for developing a prevention program for the reduction of motor vehicle accidents, and has led to changes which should help to lower the rate of accidents. The reservation is located in a rural area with a low population density of 3.6 persons per mile. The community, which is 180 miles northeast of Phoenix, is populated by more than 3,900 Native Americans. During the study period 571 motor vehicle accidents were recorded of which 120 resulted in hospitalizations or in deaths. The annual motor vehicle-related death rate was 129 persons for each 100,000 population; 206 men per 100,000 and 53 women per 100,000. Collisions involving pedestrians were responsible for only five percent of the accidents, but were related to 29 percent of fatalities and 13 percent of all hospitalizations. Animals were involved in 14 percent of crashes, none of which resulted in human fatalities. Many areas of the roadway had inadequate lighting and most pedestrian injuries and collisions with animals occurred after night fall. These data underestimate the total number of crashes since many accidents occurred on state maintained and policed roads outside of this area of study.

Injuries, Statistics, Dosage and administration, Traffic accidents, Apaches, United States. Indian Health Service

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Reductions in deaths in frontal crashes among right front passengers in vehicles equipped with passenger air bags

Article Abstract:

Passenger-side air bags in cars have reduced the death rate of adult passengers but increased the death rate in children. Researchers analyzed data on passenger deaths in cars with air bags from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System between 1992 and 1995. Passenger-side air bags reduced the death rate from frontal crashes by 18% and from all crashes by 11%. Seventy-three fewer passengers in the right front seat died than expected in cars with both driver-side and passenger-side air bags. However, passenger-side air bags increased risk of death in children by 34%.

Health aspects, Prevention, Air bag restraint systems, Airbag restraint systems

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Graduated Driver Licensing Systems: Reducing Crashes Among Teenage Drivers

Article Abstract:

Reports from North Carolina and Michigan show that graduated driver licensing programs can reduce the number of teenage drivers who are involved in car crashes about 25%. The reduction in the number of crashes at night is even greater because these programs restrict unsupervised night driving.

Editorial, Innovations, Licensing agreements, Teenage automobile drivers, Teenage drivers, Automobile drivers' licenses, Drivers' licenses

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