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ReviewInternational journal of injury control and safety promotion2023

Developing a national database of police-reported fatal road traffic crashes for road safety research and management in India.

Arunabha Banerjee, Abhaya Jha, Basit Farooq, Dinesh Mohan, Geetam Tiwari, Kavi Bhalla, Rahul Goel

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Review in International journal of injury control and safety promotion, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Pattern of road traffic fatalities in India: a case study of Chhattisgarh State.International journal of injury control and safety promotion · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Arunabha BanerjeeTransportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6314-295X
Abhaya JhaTransportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Basit FarooqTexas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Dinesh MohanTransportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Geetam TiwariTransportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Kavi BhallaDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6679-7820
Rahul GoelTransportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Funding

Establishing a research program in India focused on evaluating safety of rural roads and highwaysR21TW010823 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BAWA BHALLA, KANWALJEET SINGH · 2019 to 2020
$339k
FIC NIH HHS R21 TW010823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strengthening crash surveillance is an urgent priority for road safety in low- and middle-income countries. We reviewed the online availability and completeness of First Information Reports (FIRs; police reports) of road traffic crashes in India. We developed a relational database to record information extracted from FIRs, and implemented it for one state (Chhattisgarh, 2017-2019). We found that FIRs can be downloaded in bulk from government websites of 15 states and union territories. Another 14 provide access online but restrict bulk downloading, and 7 do not provide online access. For Chhattisgarh, 87% of registered FIRs could be downloaded. Most FIRs reported the date, time, collision-type, and vehicle-types, but important crash characteristics (e.g. infrastructure attributes) were missing. India needs to invest in building the crash surveillance capacity for research and safety management. However, in the interim, maintaining a national database of a sample of FIRs can provide useful policy guidance.

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Accidents, TrafficPoliceHumansIndiaRisk FactorsSafety ManagementFatal road crashespolice reportroad safety management

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PMID37162321
PMCPMC10524357

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