Citation

Hamza M, Agnew B, Smith J. Proc. Road Saf. Four Continents Conf. 2005; 13: 12p.

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(Copyright © 2005, Conference Sponsor)

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Abstract

Pedestrian in Libya are the more risk group of road users, the present study was intended to study the general characteristics of 442 pedestrians struck by vehicles on Libyan road in 2002 and 2003 were described in terms of vehicles involved, age and sex of the casualties, the location of impact, and the overall severity of injuries sustained. The pedestrian details were collected from two hospitals, Aboslame hospital in Tripoli city, and Al-Zintan general hospital which is located in Al-Zintan city. The statistical method of the chi-square test is used to identify whether a significant relationship exists between two categorical variables. The most vulnerable age groups were the children at age less than 15 years, accounted for 53.5%, 49% of pedestrians death were children, Adult aged 16-60 years accounted for 36.4% and elderly adults aged more than 60 years accounted for 10%. Life threatening or fatal injuries (AIS 4-6) were sustained by 34.1% of the children, 17.5% of adults and 38.7% of the elderly adults. Head injuries were the commonest form of injury for all age group closely followed by limb fractures.