Pedestrian in Libya are the more risk group of road users, the present study was intended to study the general characteristics of 442 pedestrians struck by vehicles on Libyan road in 2002 and 2003 were described in terms of vehicles involved, age and sex of the casualties, the location of impact, and the overall severity of injuries sustained. The pedestrian details were collected from two hospitals, Aboslame hospital in Tripoli city, and Al-Zintan general hospital which is located in Al-Zintan city. The statistical method of the chi-square test is used to identify whether a significant relationship exists between two categorical variables. 49 per cent of pedestrian fatalities were children, adults aged 16-60 years accounted for 36.4 per cent and elderly adults aged more than 60 years accounted for 10 per cent. Life threatening or fatal injuries (AIS 4-6) were sustained by 34.1 per cent of the children, 17.5 per cent of adults and 38.7 per cent of the elderly adults. Head injuries were the commonest form of injury for all age groups closely followed by limb fractures (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E217780.
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