Severe and Fatal Cycling Crash Injury in Britain: Time to Make Urban Cycling Safer
Type: Journal Article Venue: Journal of Urban Health Year: 2022
Abstract
Pedal cycling is advocated for increasing physical activity and promoting health and wellbeing. However, whilst some countries have achieved zero cyclist deaths on their roads, this is not the case for Great Britain (GB). A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was conducted of STATS19 cyclist crash data, a dataset of all police-reported traffic crashes in GB. Information about crash location, casualty, driver and vehicles involved were included as predictors of casualty severity (fatal or severe vs. slight). Sixteen thousand one hundred seventy pedal cycle crashes were reported during 2018. Severe or fatal cyclist crash injury was associated with increasing age of the cyclist (3539 years, OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.73; 5559 years, OR 1.73, 95% CI 1.35 to 2.2; 70 years and over, OR 2.87, 95% CI 2.12 to 3.87), higher road speed limits (50 MPH OR 2.10, 95% CI 1.43 to 3.07; 70 MPH OR 4.12, 95% CI 2.12 to 8.03), the involvement of goods vehicles (OR 2.08, 95% CI 1.30 to 3.33) and the months of May and June (OR 1.34 to 1.36, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.73). Urban planning that includes physical separation of pedal cyclists from other road users, raising awareness around the risks from goods vehicles and reducing road speed should be the urgent focus of interventions to increase the benefits and safety of cycling.
Citation
Amanda J. Mason-Jones, Stephen Turrell, Gerardo Zavala Gomez, Caroline Tait, and Robin Lovelace (2022). Severe and Fatal Cycling Crash Injury in Britain: Time to Make Urban Cycling Safer. Journal of Urban Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00617-7
BibTeX
@article{mason-jones_severe_2022,
title = {Severe and {{Fatal Cycling Crash Injury}} in {{Britain}}: {{Time}} to {{Make Urban Cycling Safer}}},
shorttitle = {Severe and {{Fatal Cycling Crash Injury}} in {{Britain}}},
author = {{Mason-Jones}, Amanda J. and Turrell, Stephen and Gomez, Gerardo Zavala and Tait, Caroline and Lovelace, Robin},
year = {2022},
month = apr,
journal = {Journal of Urban Health},
volume = {99},
number = {2},
pages = {334--343},
issn = {1468-2869},
doi = {10.1007/s11524-022-00617-7},
urldate = {2022-05-05},
abstract = {Pedal cycling is advocated for increasing physical activity and promoting health and wellbeing. However, whilst some countries have achieved zero cyclist deaths on their roads, this is not the case for Great Britain (GB). A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was conducted of STATS19 cyclist crash data, a dataset of all police-reported traffic crashes in GB. Information about crash location, casualty, driver and vehicles involved were included as predictors of casualty severity (fatal or severe vs. slight). Sixteen thousand one hundred seventy pedal cycle crashes were reported during 2018. Severe or fatal cyclist crash injury was associated with increasing age of the cyclist (35{\textendash}39~years, OR 1.38, 95\% CI 1.11 to 1.73; 55{\textendash}59~years, OR 1.73, 95\% CI 1.35 to 2.2; 70~years and over, OR 2.87, 95\% CI 2.12 to 3.87), higher road speed limits (50 MPH OR 2.10, 95\% CI 1.43 to 3.07; 70 MPH OR 4.12, 95\% CI 2.12 to 8.03), the involvement of goods vehicles (OR 2.08, 95\% CI 1.30 to 3.33) and the months of May and June (OR 1.34 to 1.36, 95\% CI 1.06 to 1.73). Urban planning that includes physical separation of pedal cyclists from other road users, raising awareness around the risks from goods vehicles and reducing road speed should be the urgent focus of interventions to increase the benefits and safety of cycling.},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY-SA)},
langid = {english},
keywords = {Cycling,Epidemiology,Injury,Prevention,Road safety,Urban planning},
file = {/home/robin/Zotero/storage/NLL6MP2B/Mason-Jones et al. - 2022 - Severe and Fatal Cycling Crash Injury in Britain .pdf}
}