Road users seriously injured in single crashes – The impact of sex, age and speed limit on injuries for pedestrians, cyclists, car occupants and motorcyclists in Sweden, 2016–2019
Astrid Värnild, Per Tillgren, Peter Larm
Abstract
• More road users were seriously injured in single than multi-vehicle crashes. • Three-fourths of them were pedestrians and cyclists. • The higher the speed limit, the fewer who were seriously injured in single crashes. • The road space will define the pedestrian fall as a single crash.
Topics & Concepts
Speed limitCrashPedestrianTransport engineeringPoison controlEngineeringMedicineEnvironmental healthComputer scienceProgramming languageTraffic and Road SafetyInjury Epidemiology and PreventionUrban Transport and Accessibility