@article{ref1,
title="Developing a national database of police-reported fatal road traffic crashes for road safety research and management in India",
journal="International journal of injury control and safety promotion",
year="2023",
author="Banerjee, Arunabha and Jha, Abhaya and Farooq, Basit and Mohan, Dinesh and Tiwari, Geetam and Bhalla, Kavi and Goel, Rahul",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Strengthening crash surveillance is an urgent priority for road safety in low- and middle-income countries. We reviewed the online availability and completeness of First Information Reports (FIRs; police reports) of road traffic crashes in India. We developed a relational database to record information extracted from FIRs, and implemented it for one state (Chhattisgarh, 2017-2019). We found that FIRs can be downloaded in bulk from government websites of 15 states and union territories. Another 14 provide access online but restrict bulk downloading, and 7 do not provide online access. For Chhattisgarh, 87% of registered FIRs could be downloaded. Most FIRs reported the date, time, collision-type, and vehicle-types, but important crash characteristics (e.g. infrastructure attributes) were missing. India needs to invest in building the crash surveillance capacity for research and safety management. However, in the interim, maintaining a national database of a sample of FIRs can provide useful policy guidance.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1745-7300",
doi="10.1080/17457300.2023.2210546",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2023.2210546"
}