Completed 2019 Research Project

Using integrated data to examine characteristics related to pedestrian and bicyclist injuries

Principal Investigator
Katherine Harmon
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Co-Principal Investigator
Laura Sandt 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Full Report

Fact Sheet: Pedestrian Fatalities among Veterans in North Carolina: 2014-2018

Fact Sheet: Pedestrian Fatalities among Children (0-17 years) in North Carolina: 2009-2018

Project Slide Deck

Research Brief

Summary

There is a need to tackle the problem of rising pedestrian morbidity and mortality through the study of integrated crash and health outcome data at the population level. This study analyzed five years of population-based, integrated, police reported crash and emergency department visit data to examine vehicle, crash, roadway, and person-level factors and their association with serious pedestrian injuries, ascertained using clinical metrics, rather than police reported injury severity indices. In addition, the results of the descriptive analysis were used to inform a multivariate predictive regression analysis, in which significant predictors of serious pedestrian injury were identified. Finally, the integrated crash-emergency department visit data were used to describe both the nature (laceration, fracture, etc.) and location (head, upper extremity, etc.) of injury to have a better understanding of pedestrian health outcomes following a motor vehicle crash.

Publication

Presentations

  • Harmon, K. J. (2021, March). Using integrated data to examine characteristics related to pedestrian injuries [Webinar]. Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Research Call, Virtual.
  • Harmon, K. J. (2021, February). Leveraging integrated crash-emergency department visit data to explore pedestrian crash injury characteristics at the population-level [Conference presentation]. SAE Government/Industry Digital Summit, Virtual.
  • Harmon, K. J., Hancock, K. A., Waller, A. E., Sandt, L. S. (2020, October). Selected characteristics and injury patterns by age group among pedestrians treated in North Carolina emergency departments [Conference presentation]. The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Virtual.
  • Harmon, K. J. (2020, January). Health and transportation data linkage [Conference presentation]. Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting; Washington, DC, United States.
  • Person-Jones, K., Harmon, K. J., Northam, W. T., Quinsey, C. (2019, December). Children struck by motor vehicles: factors associated with subsequent head injury [Conference presentation]. 48th Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Scottsdale, AZ, United States.

Project Details

Project Type: Research
Project Status: Completed
Start Date: 6-1-2019
End Date: 7-1-2021
Contract Year: Year 3
Total Funding from CSCRS: $53,007