Every year in the UK thousands of people are killed and tens of thousands are seriously injured in traffic accidents. As well as the personal tragedy of these events, road traffic accidents have economic implications. An understanding of how injuries occur in accidents is sought in order to implement ideas to mitigate them, and a major part of gaining this understanding is looking at national level statistics. A traditional source of traffic accident data recorded by the Police (STATS19) and the data recorded by the hospitals (Hospital Episode Statistics HES) will be investigated. While the purpose of STATS19 is to record traffic accidents, recording details of traffic casualties is only a small part of the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). As such, only limited accident analysis has been performed using HES in the past. This project provides the opportunity to display how HES can be used in accident investigation, and how it relates to STATS19. This report concentrates on the characteristics of the pedestrian casualties in the two datasets. (Author/publisher)
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