Road traffic crashes with fatal and non-fatal injuries in Arkhangelsk, Russia in 2005–2010

Abstract

The study investigated trends in traffic crashes with fatal and non-fatal injuries in Arkhangelsk, Russia in 2005–2010. Data were obtained from the road police. Negative binomial regression with time regressor was used to investigate trends in monthly incidence rates (IRs) of crashes, fatalities, and non-fatal injuries. During the six-year period, the police registered 4955 crashes with fatal and non-fatal injuries, which resulted in 217 fatalities and 5964 non-fatal injury cases. The IR of crashes with fatal and non-fatal injuries per total population showed no evident change, while the IR per increasing total number of motor vehicles decreased on average by 0.6% per month. Pedestrian crashes constituted 51.8% of studied crashes, and pedestrians constituted 54.6% of fatalities and 44.5% of non-fatal injuries. The IRs of pedestrian crashes and non-fatal pedestrian injuries per total population decreased on average by 0.3% per month, and these were the major trends in the data.

Keywords:

• traffic crash
• traffic accident
• injury
• fatality
• Russia

Acknowledgements

We thank Alexey Maximov, Marina Ermolina, Alexey Kuznetsov, Alexander Milyakov, Evgeny Ostashov, and other officers of the Arkhangelsk Road Traffic Safety Inspectorate for their practical help in picking up non-personalised variables from the police registries and advice on data management.