Road injuries and relaxed licensing requirements for driving light motorcycles in Spain: a time-series analysis
Katherine Pérez, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Carme Borrell, Manel Nebot, Joan R Villalbí, Elena Santamariña & Aurelio Tobias
Volume 87, Number 7, July 2009, 497-504
Table 4. Sex and age of injured motorcycle, moped and car riders before and after law allowing experienced car drivers to drive light motorcycles, Barcelona, Spain, 1 January 2002 to 30 April 2008
| Motorcycle |
Moped |
Car |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light (EC 51–125 cc) |
Heavy (EC > 125 cc) |
Unknown |
(EC ≤ 50 cc) |
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| Prea (n = 3451) % | Postb (n = 6633) % | Prea (n = 3130) % | Postb (n = 5229) % | Prea (n = 4350) % | Postb (n = 6217)% | Prea (n = 7050) % | Postb (n = 7515) % | Pre (n = 11 803) % | Post (n = 11 948) % | |||||||||||||||
| Gender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Male | 66.6 | 67.7 | 81.6 | 84.1 | 65.7 | 66.4 | 64.7 | 64.9 | 55.6 | 57.4 | ||||||||||||||
| Female | 29.1 | 32.3 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 30.0 | 33.6 | 31.4 | 35.1 | 39.9 | 42.5 | ||||||||||||||
| Unknown | 4.3 | 0 | 4.5 | 0 | 4.3 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0.1 | ||||||||||||||
| Age, in years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0–13 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 | ||||||||||||||
| 14–17 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 13.1 | 13.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | ||||||||||||||
| 18–30 | 49.7 | 47.6 | 41.9 | 34.1 | 52.5 | 49.0 | 68.6 | 64.3 | 44.6 | 39.8 | ||||||||||||||
| 31–45 | 34.2 | 36.2 | 43.9 | 46.7 | 29.7 | 34.6 | 14.3 | 18.1 | 26.0 | 29.1 | ||||||||||||||
| 46–65 | 10.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 16.8 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 18.7 | 19.9 | ||||||||||||||
| > 65 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 4.1 | 4.4 | ||||||||||||||
| Unknown | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.3 | ||||||||||||||
EC, engine capacity.
a Period before the law: 1 January 2002 to 30 September 2004.
b Period after the law: 1 October 2004 to 30 April 2008.