The characteristics of e-scooter accidents reported by police in Türkiye

IF 1.6 3区工程技术 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Traffic Injury Prevention Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI:10.1080/15389588.2024.2363478

Ebru Arikan Öztürk , Fatih Karaçor , Hikmet Bayirtepe

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Abstract

Objectives

Shared e-scooter service has been offered by various operators in Türkiye since 2019. The use of private and shared e-scooters is increasing, especially in large cities. This raises social concerns about the dangers e-scooters pose regarding traffic safety and injuries requiring medical attention. This study aims to investigate the accidents related to e-scooters in Türkiye to determine the contributing factors and accident characteristics.

Methods

In this study, accident reports (collision reports) for 780 e-scooter collisions that occurred in 2021 in Türkiye were examined, and 771 accidents were included. Accident data were obtained from the Traffic Department of the Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Security. Descriptive statistics of the factors affecting e-scooter accidents are presented to determine the relationship and differences; chi-square tests, independent samples t-tests, one-way analysis of variance, and binary logistic regression methods were used.

Results

Male e-scooter riders are involved in crashes and injured approximately 4 times more often than female riders. The average age for men injured in e-scooter accidents is 30.4, and the mean age for women is 27.2. For both males and females, most injuries occurred in the 15 to 20 age group. Riders under the age of 18 constitute a significant proportion of the accidents (32.5%). Most e-scooter accidents occur on Mondays and during the month of August. Most accidents occurred between 12:00 p.m. and 1:59 p.m. (15.7%) and between 4:00 p.m. and 5:59 p.m. (15.7%), mainly during the daytime. About half of the accidents occurred at intersections. In 10.5% of accidents, the accident occurred at a pedestrian crossing. Approximately one-fifth of the accidents involved falls, and the most common type of collision was a side collision (44.2%). The binary logistic regression model showed that multivehicle accidents occur more often at intersections and during busy traffic hours. Single-vehicle accidents are more common on concrete roads and stone block roads.

Conclusions

Deaths and injuries caused by road traffic accidents are a public health problem in Türkiye and constitute a significant health burden. If necessary precautions are not taken, this burden is likely to increase. We hope that the findings from this study will help reduce e-scooter accidents in Türkiye.

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土耳其警方报告的电动摩托车事故特点。

目标：自 2019 年起，土耳其的多家运营商开始提供共享电动滑板车服务。私人和共享电动滑板车的使用日益增多，尤其是在大城市。这引起了社会对电动滑板车在交通安全和需要就医的伤害方面所带来的危险的关注。本研究旨在调查土耳其与电动滑板车有关的事故，以确定诱因和事故特征：本研究审查了 2021 年发生在土耳其的 780 起电动滑板车碰撞事故的事故报告（碰撞报告），其中包括 771 起事故。事故数据来自内政部安全总局交通部。对影响电动滑板车事故的因素进行了描述性统计，以确定其关系和差异；采用了卡方检验、独立样本 t 检验、单因素方差分析和二元逻辑回归方法：男性电动摩托车骑行者发生事故和受伤的频率约为女性骑行者的 4 倍。在电动摩托车事故中受伤的男性平均年龄为 30.4 岁，女性平均年龄为 27.2 岁。在男性和女性中，大多数伤害发生在 15 至 20 岁年龄组。18 岁以下的骑行者在事故中占很大比例（32.5%）。大多数电动摩托车事故发生在星期一和八月份。大多数事故发生在中午 12:00 至下午 1:59（15.7%）和下午 4:00 至下午 5:59（15.7%）之间，主要发生在白天。大约一半的事故发生在十字路口。10.5%的事故发生在人行横道上。约五分之一的事故涉及跌倒，最常见的碰撞类型是侧面碰撞（44.2%）。二元逻辑回归模型显示，多车事故多发生在十字路口和交通繁忙时段。单车事故在水泥路和石块路更常见：道路交通事故造成的死伤是土耳其的一个公共卫生问题，也是一个重大的健康负担。如果不采取必要的预防措施，这一负担很可能会加重。我们希望这项研究的结果将有助于减少土耳其的电动摩托车事故。

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Traffic Injury Prevention PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

10.00%

发文量

137

审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： The purpose of Traffic Injury Prevention is to bridge the disciplines of medicine, engineering, public health and traffic safety in order to foster the science of traffic injury prevention. The archival journal focuses on research, interventions and evaluations within the areas of traffic safety, crash causation, injury prevention and treatment. General topics within the journal''s scope are driver behavior, road infrastructure, emerging crash avoidance technologies, crash and injury epidemiology, alcohol and drugs, impact injury biomechanics, vehicle crashworthiness, occupant restraints, pedestrian safety, evaluation of interventions, economic consequences and emergency and clinical care with specific application to traffic injury prevention. The journal includes full length papers, review articles, case studies, brief technical notes and commentaries.