Road traffic crashes and fatalities in Japan 2000-2010 with special reference to the elderly road user.

Conclusions: Despite the overall decrease in the elderly crash and fatal crash rates in all road use categories, elderly pedestrians are more susceptible to road traffic crashes and are more likely to be killed than younger persons. Further research may reduce this risk. Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Traffic Injury Prevention to view the supplemental file.
PMID: 24073764 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - October 2, 2013 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Kaimila B, Yamashina H, Arai A, Tamashiro H Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research