Pedestrian injuries in the United States: Shifting injury patterns with the introduction of pedestrian protection into the passenger vehicle fleet

CONCLUSIONS: More important than the reasons for the shifts in the relative frequency of injury to each body region are the conclusions that can be drawn regarding priorities for pedestrian protection research. Though head/face and lower extremity injuries remained the most frequently injured body regions in adult pedestrians admitted to NTDB trauma centers, the relative frequency of thorax and pelvis/hip injuries increased steadily, underlining the increasing importance of pedestrian protection research on these body regions.PMID:38175182 | DOI:10.1080/15389588.2023.2281271
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Source Type: research