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Citation |
Garrison HG, Crump CE. Ann. Emerg. Med. 2007; 49(2): 218-220. |
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Affiliation |
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2007, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing) |
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17236907 |
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Abstract |
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and its National Center for Statistics and Analysis reported recently the results of its analysis of differences among racial and ethnic populations in the frequency of their involvement in fatal motor vehicle crashes. The data for the report come from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a 30-year-old ongoing nationwide collection of traffic death information, which comes from many sources, including police crash investigations and death certificates. Although previous studies have described the problem in different regions, the NHTSA report establishes at the national level that certain races and ethnicities are overrepresented in fatal traffic crashes. As do many reports that examine a significant problem, this one raises more questions than it answers. Nonetheless, the report stands as a call for action aimed at reducing the excess of injury experienced by people of certain races and ethnicities. This article discusses what is known from the report. Language: en |