FACTORS AFFECTING THE TIMES TILL DEATH OF PEDESTRIANS KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENTS

Police reports of fatal pedestrian road accidents in London in 1970-71 have been examined, and the times of death extracted. These have been related to estimated speed of impact, age of injured person, and type of striking vehicle. High impact speed tends to lead to quick death. Age has no statistically significant effect once speed is controlled, but because a greater proportion of elderly pedestrians are killed by slow-moving vehicles, the elderly appear to die later than the young when all speed groups are combined. Type of vehicle also influences time of death, with motorcycles giving rise to later deaths and heavy goods vehicles to quicker ones than cars. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  University College London

  Centre for Transport Studies, Gower Street
  London,   United Kingdom  WC1E 6BT
• Authors:
  • Hatchinson, T P
• Publication Date: 1975-12

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 25 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Automobiles; Call boxes (Driver aid devices); Crashes; Fatalities; Human characteristics; Mathematical models; Motor vehicles; Motorcycles; Motorist aid systems; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Pedestrians; Speed; Time; Traffic speed; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Pedestrian characteristics
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1757: Age; 1057: Air transport network; 1631: Collision; 9011: Design (overall design); 1602: Fatality; 2163: Injury; 1078: Lock (waterway); 6205: Model (not math); 1746: Old people; 1733: Pedestrian; 5408: Speed; 5414: Time; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I81: Accident Statistics; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147661
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Road Safety Study and Research Fund, Belgium
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM