State-of-the-art Review: Preventing Child and Youth Pedestrian Motor Vehicle Collisions: Critical Issues and Future Directions

Overview

Journal Inj Prev

Specialties Emergency Medicine
Pediatrics
Public Health

Date 2020 Nov 5

PMID 33148798

Citations 13

Authors

Marie-Soleil Cloutier

Emilie Beaulieu

Liraz Fridman

Alison K Macpherson

Brent E Hagel

Andrew William Howard

Tony Churchill

Pamela Fuselli

Colin Macarthur

Linda Rothman

Affiliations

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Abstract

Aim: To undertake a comprehensive review of the best available evidence related to risk factors for child pedestrian motor vehicle collision (PMVC), as well as identification of established and emerging prevention strategies.

Methods: Articles on risk factors were identified through a search of English language publications listed in Medline, Embase, Transport, SafetyLit, Web of Science, CINHAL, Scopus and PsycINFO within the last 30 years (~1989 onwards).

Results: This state-of-the-art review uses the road safety Safe System approach as a new lens to examine three risk factor domains affecting child pedestrian safety (built environment, drivers and vehicles) and four cross-cutting critical issues (reliable collision and exposure data, evaluation of interventions, evidence-based policy and intersectoral collaboration).

Conclusions: Research conducted over the past 30 years has reported extensively on child PMVC risk factors. The challenge facing us now is how to move these findings into action and intervene to reduce the child PMVC injury and fatality rates worldwide.

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