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Review
. 2021 Feb;27(1):77-84.
doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043829. Epub 2020 Nov 4.

State-of-the-art review: preventing child and youth pedestrian motor vehicle collisions: critical issues and future directions

Marie-Soleil Cloutier  1 , Emilie Beaulieu  2 , Liraz Fridman  3 , Alison K Macpherson  4 , Brent E Hagel  5   6   7 , Andrew William Howard  3   8 , Tony Churchill  9 , Pamela Fuselli  10 , Colin Macarthur  3 , Linda Rothman  11
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State-of-the-art review: preventing child and youth pedestrian motor vehicle collisions: critical issues and future directions

Marie-Soleil Cloutier et al. Inj Prev. 2021 Feb.

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.

Keywords: child; driver; environmental modification; motor vehicle - non traffic; pedestrian; speed.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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A Safe System approach to child and youth pedestrian injuries.
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Comment in

  • Letter to the editor.
    Pless IB. Pless IB. Inj Prev. 2021 Apr;27(2):206. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044183. Epub 2021 Feb 18. Inj Prev. 2021. PMID: 33602666 No abstract available.

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