Samenvatting
The developing island nation of Grenada undertook a major road improvement project between 1995 and 1998. In order to determine the effect of those improvements on crash injury and mortality, the authors reviewed the number of crash-related injuries and deaths for 1994 and 1999. After the road improvements, the proportion of crashes that resulted in injury decreased from 22% to 15%. The raw number of crashes (818 versus 1233 ), deaths (4 versus 12) and deaths per 100,000 population (4.1 versus 11.9) increased, but the proportion of crashes that resulted in death (0.5% versus 0.7%) remained effectively unchanged. (Author/publisher)