TITLE:
Pedestrian Injury Severity in Automobile Crashes
AUTHORS:
Kofi Obeng, Md Rokonuzzaman
KEYWORDS:
Pedestrians; Injury Severity; Signalized Intersections; Automobile Crashes
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Safety Science and Technology,
Vol.3 No.2,
June
20,
2013
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.