Effect on road traffic injuries of criminalizing road traffic offences: a time–series study
Ana M Novoa, Katherine Pérez, Elena Santamariña-Rubio & Carme Borrell
Volume 89, Number 6, June 2011, 422-431
Table 2. Distribution of drivers involved in injury collisions and of people injured in traffic collisions by sex, age, injury severity, type of road user, road type, and time of collision, Spain, 2000–2009
| Characteristic | Driversa (%) |
People injuredb (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men (n = 1 299 564) | Women (n = 309 043) | Men (n = 922 883) | Women (n = 492 059) | ||
| Age (years) | |||||
| 0–13 | – | – | 3.3 | 5.0 | |
| 14–15 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | |
| 16–17 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 4.9 | 3.7 | |
| 18–29 | 35.0 | 39.5 | 38.3 | 35.2 | |
| 30–44 | 34.0 | 38.2 | 28.7 | 26.1 | |
| 45–64 | 21.9 | 17.8 | 16.5 | 18.5 | |
| 65–74 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 5.6 | |
| 75+ | 1.6 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 4.1 | |
| Injury severity | |||||
| Unharmed | 45.1 | 36.3 | – | – | |
| Slight | 43.5 | 56.3 | 79.3 | 85.7 | |
| Serious | 9.6 | 6.6 | 17.4 | 12.6 | |
| Fatal (24 hours) | 1.8 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 1.7 | |
| Type of road user | |||||
| Car driver/user | 63.5 | 80.9 | 53.3 | 67.2 | |
| Motorcycle rider/user | 9.7 | 3.8 | 13.2 | 4.5 | |
| Moped rider/user | 12.1 | 12.3 | 17.3 | 10.8 | |
| Other | 14.7 | 3.0 | 9.7 | 5.9 | |
| Pedestrian | – | – | 6.5 | 11.6 | |
| Road type | |||||
| Urban | 52.2 | 55.9 | 45.5 | 48.1 | |
| Non-urban | 47.8 | 44.1 | 54.5 | 51.9 | |
| Time of collision | |||||
| Weekday daytime | 53.6 | 61.6 | 48.9 | 52.3 | |
| Weekday night-time | 14.0 | 12.3 | 14.8 | 12.5 | |
| Weekend daytime | 16.9 | 14.5 | 18.1 | 19.6 | |
| Weekend night-time | 15.5 | 11.6 | 18.2 | 15.6 | |
a Among drivers, gender was unknown for 60 282 (3.6%), injury severity for 103 998 (6.2%) and type of road user for 47 551 (2.9%).
b Among people injured, gender was unknown for 40 029 (2.8%) and type of road user for 39 478 (2.7%).