TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Chinese traffic fatalities and injuries in police reports, hospital records, and in-depth records from one city
JO  - Traffic injury prevention
A1  - Qiu, Jun
A1  - Zhou, Jihong
A1  - Zhang, Liang
A1  - Yao, Yuan
A1  - Yuan, Danfeng
A1  - Shi, Jianguo
A1  - Gao, Zhiming
A1  - Zhou, Lin
A1  - Wang, Zhengguo
A1  - Evans, Leonard
SP  - 565
EP  - 570
VL  - 16
IS  - 6
N2  - OBJECTIVES: Claims of sharp reductions in Chinese traffic casualties after 2002 based on police-reported data have been questioned in the literature. To determine whether a decline in casualties occurred, and to better understand the police data. <br><br>METHODS: The first of two unrelated studies analyzed data from 210 military hospitals throughout China providing records of inpatients injured in traffic (2001-2007). The second compared in-depth crash records (2000 - 2006) from one city to officially released data. <br><br>RESULTS: Hospital data showed casualties increased from 2002 to 2007. The city investigation showed consistently far more fatalities and injuries in the in-depth data than officially released. For example, in-depth data showed 1720 fatalities. Only 557 of these were reported officially (data loss = 68%). Disaggregating into 3 regions showed a data loss of 41% in urban areas, 63% in rural areas, and 90% in rural-urban fringe zones. For injuries data losses were even greater. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Traffic fatalities and injuries did not decrease from 2002 to 2006. The in-depth city data contained three times as many fatalities and five times as many injuries as reported by police. Reasons why this occurred and suggestions to improve data collection and reduce casualties are given.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1538-9588
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2014.973946
ID  - ref1
ER  -