Reporting of road traffic accidents in London : matching police STATS19 with hospital accident and emergency data. Supplementary report for St. Thomas' Hospital Central London.

Author(s)
Ward, H. Robertson, S. Townley, K. & Pedler, A.
Year
Abstract

A previous study for Transport for London (TfL) had taken three hospitals in London and matched their road traffic casualty data with the STATS19 police records for the same areas. The hospitals were St Mary's Paddington, representing Central London, King's College Hospital Camberwell, representing Inner London, and Barnett General Hospital, representing Outer London. The results indicate that the percentage of road traffic casualties known to the police in London through the STATS19 data collection process is higher than found by other studies elsewhere in the country, with the King's area being about 71 percent, Barnett about 70 percent and St Mary's about 87 percent. This latter figure was considered to be high even for London so a second Central London hospital, St Thomas' was chosen in order to estimate the reporting rate in this area which forms the basis of the study. (Author/publisher)

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Library number
C 42492 [electronic version only] /80 /81 /83 / ITRD E134286
Source

Crowthorne, Berkshire, Transport Research Laboratory TRL, 2007, 31 p., 8 ref.; Published Project Report ; PPR 242 - ISSN 0968-4093 / ISBN 978-1-84608-816-2

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