Citation

Takahashi H, Fujita T, Nakahara S, Sakamoto T. Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2018; 25(4): 427-432.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine , Teikyo University School of Medicine , Tokyo , Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17457300.2018.1456469

PMID

29671372

Abstract

This study describes injury patterns and outcomes related to the seating position of child passengers involved in motor vehicle crashes in Japan. Using data obtained from a national trauma registry database, we compared the occurrence of injuries by body parts, length of hospital stay and in-hospital deaths between front-seating and rear-seating among children. We analysed 166 children aged 0-5 years and 205 children aged 6-12 years. No significant differences were observed between front- and rear-seating for injured body parts, length of hospital stay or in-hospital deaths in the 0-5-year-old victims. Among those aged 6-12 years, rear-seating was associated with a higher incidence of head and chest injuries but the length of stay or in-hospital deaths did not differ. These findings contrast those of previous studies, which found that rear-seating reduces injury risk, possibly attributed to low age-appropriate restraint use among school-aged children in Japan.

Language: en

Keywords

Motor vehicle crash; body parts; children; passenger; seating position