ArticleInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2013
Why more male pedestrians die in vehicle-pedestrian collisions than female pedestrians: a decompositional analysis.
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- Substance use among fatally-injured pedestrians in New York State, USA: a retrospective analysis.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026Article
- Comparing pedestrian safety between electric and internal combustion engine vehicles.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of head injuries in pedestrian-motor vehicle accidents.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Impact of obesity on the severity of trauma in patients injured in pedestrian traffic accidents.Journal of trauma and injury · 2022Article
- Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians.Journal of transport & health · 2020Article
- The Relationship Between Objectively Measured Walking and Risk of Pedestrian-Motor Vehicle Collision.American journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Gender and age differences in components of traffic-related pedestrian death rates: exposure, risk of crash and fatality rate.Injury epidemiology · 2016Article
- Motor vehicle traffic-related pedestrian deaths - United States, 2001-2010.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectivePedestrians account for a third of the 1.2 million traffic fatalities annually worldwide, and men are overrepresented. We examined the factors that contribute to this male-female discrepancy: walking exposure (kilometres walked per person-year), vehicle-pedestrian collision risk (number of collisions per kilometres walked) and vehicle-pedestrian collision case fatality rate (number of deaths per collision).
designThe decomposition method quantifies the relative contributions (RCs) of individual factors to death rate ratios among groups. The male-female ratio of pedestrian death rates can be expressed as the product of three component ratios: walking exposure, collision risk and case fatality rate. Data sources included the 2008-2009 US Fatality Analysis Reporting System, General Estimates System, National Household Travel Survey and population estimates.
settingUSA.
participantsPedestrians aged 5 years and older.
main outcome measuresDeath rate per person-year, kilometres walked per person-year, collisions per kilometres walked and deaths per collision by sex.
resultsThe pedestrian death rate per person-year for men was 2.3 times that for women. This ratio of male to female rates can be expressed as the product of three component ratios: 0.995 for walking exposure, 1.191 for collision risk and 1.976 for case fatality rate. The RCs of these components were 1%, 20% and 79%, respectively.
conclusionsThe majority of the male-female discrepancy in 2008-2009 pedestrian deaths in the US is attributed to a higher fatality per collision rate among male pedestrians.
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