According to the Swedish questionnaire-based National Traffic Safety Survey, TSU92, self-reported accidents involving pedestrians without involvement of any vehicle (single-pedestrian accidents) accounted for roughly half, or 49 %, (1,141,962) of the total number of all road transport single accidents (2,335,017) in 1998-2000. This survey covered 23,030 people aged 1-84 (Gustafsson and Thulin, 2003). The pedestrian exposure, i.e. total walking distance, was 3,226 million person kilometres per year for 10,660 pedestrians, or 3 km per person per day. The exposure and the proportion of single-pedestrian accidents is different for different age groups. The youngest, aged between 1 and 14, have a greater portion of self-reported single accidents than their proportion of exposure. Between 15 and 24 years it is almost the same and for people between 25 and 84 their proportion of exposure is greater then their proportion of self-reported accidents. Younger people are more at risk than other age groups. Swedish data reveals that the average risk for a single-pedestrian accident is 346 accidents/million person kilometres. This includes all types of single-pedestrian accidents. Approximately 60% involve people in the age group 1-24 years. The probability of being involved in a single-pedestrian accident is therefore, on average, lower for adults. For the period 1999-2002 in Sweden, single-pedestrian accidents accounted for 38% of the total number (3,029,554) of all self-reported traffic accidents, i.e., single and collision accidents added together for all modes of road transport. The average risk of a collision accident for a pedestrian is 24 per million person-kilometres walked. The risk of any kind of single or collision accident among all road transport modes is 20 per million person-kilometres (Gustafsson and Thulin, 2003). (Author/publisher) This publication may be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.ictct.org/workshop.php?workshop_nr=26
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