PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES IN TRIPOLI CITY-LIBYA

Mohamed A Hamza

doi:10.66411/jer.v10i10.179

Authors

Mohamed A Hamza Al-Fateh University, Faculty of Engineering, Tripoli-Libya Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.66411/jer.v10i10.179

Keywords:

Pedestrians, Libya, Road accidents, Injuries

Abstract

Pedestrians in Libya are the more risk group of road users; the present study was intended to study the general characteristics of 442 pedestrians struck by vehicles on Libyan road in 2003 and 2004. Accidents were described in terms of vehicles involved, age and sex of the casualties, the location of impact, and the overall severity of injuries sustained. The pedestrian details were collected from the Accidents hospital in Tripoli. The statistical method of the chi-square test is used to identify whether a significant relationship exists between two categorical variables. the most vulnerable age groups were children at age less than 15 years who accounted for 53.5%, of all accidents while 49% of pedestrian's death was children, Adult aged 16-60 years accounted for 36.4% and elderly adults aged more than 60 years accounted for 10%. Life threatening or fatal injuries (AIS 4-6) were sustained by 34.1% of the children, 17.5% of adults and 38.7% of the elderly adults. Head injuries were the commonest form of injury for all age group closely followed by limb fractures

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