Pedestrian Injury Severity in Automobile Crashes

Kofi Obeng, Md Rokonuzzaman

Department of Marketing, Transportation and Supply Chain, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/ojsst.2013.32002                

Abstract

This paper analyzes pedestrian injury severity from automobile crashes at signalized intersections in a medium-size city. It estimates an ordered logit model of injury severity and finds that vehicle type, gender, land-use, speed limit, traffic volume, the presence of sidewalks and visual-obstruction significantly explain pedestrian injury severity in vehicle-pedestrian crashes at signalized intersections. Females also are found to be disproportionately involved in these crashes, while sidewalks increase the probability of a pedestrian sustaining a serious injury, passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups are associated with less severe pedestrian injuries.

Keywords

Pedestrians; Injury Severity; Signalized Intersections; Automobile Crashes

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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