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Paper Title:
Traffic Crash Experience
of a Cohort of young Queenslanders in the last decade of the twentieth
century
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Authors:
Vic Siskind
Abstract:
To estimate rates of
serious traffic crashes in young adults, we obtained subsequent
traffic crash records of participants in a trial of a school-based
intervention in Queensland Grade 10 students (aged mostly 14 or
15) by matching over 60,000 names to the Queensland Transport Traffic
Crash Database in February 2001. Almost 50,000 participants had
earlier been identified in Queensland Transport traffic records.
Results:
3780 cohort members were involved in traffic crashes in which someone
was injured, 204 more than once;
158 (74% male) were killed and 1296 (66% male) hospitalised. Depending
on the denominator chosen, this represents a rate among young adults
of 4.6 to 5.8 serious crashes per thousand person-year. Rates were
not uniform over time peaking when the participants were 19 or 20
years old.
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