Title

Motor vehicle-bicycle crashes in Beijing: Irregular maneuvers, crash patterns, and injury severity

Authors

Authors

X. P. Yan; M. Ma; H. L. Huang; M. Abdel-Aty;C. Z. Wu

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Accid. Anal. Prev.

Keywords

Motor vehicle-bicycle crash; Irregular maneuver; Crash pattern; Injury; severity; Logit model; HEAD-INJURY; NEW-ZEALAND; ACCIDENTS; ALCOHOL; DEATHS; RISK; Ergonomics; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Social; Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Transportation

Abstract

This research presents a comprehensive analysis of motor vehicle-bicycle crashes using 4 years of reported crash data (2004-2007) in Beijing. The interrelationship of irregular maneuvers, crash patterns and bicyclist injury severity are investigated by controlling for a variety of risk factors related to bicyclist demographics, roadway geometric design, road environment, etc. Results show that different irregular maneuvers are correlated with a number of risk factors at different roadway locations such as the bicyclist age and gender, weather and traffic condition. Furthermore, angle collisions are the leading pattern of motor vehicle-bicycle crashes, and different irregular maneuvers may lead to some specific crash patterns such as head-on or rear-end crashes. Orthokinetic scrape is more likely to result in running over bicyclists, which may lead to more severe injury. Moreover, bicyclist injury severity level could be elevated by specific crash patterns and risk factors including head-on and angle collisions, occurrence of running over bicyclists, night without streetlight, roads without median/division, higher speed limit, heavy vehicle involvement and older bicyclists. This study suggests installation of median, division between roadway and bikeway, and improvement of illumination on road segments. Reduced speed limit is also recommended at roadway locations with high bicycle traffic volume. Furthermore, it may be necessary to develop safety campaigns aimed at male, teenage and older bicyclists. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volume

43

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1751

Last Page

1758

WOS Identifier

WOS:000292670500019

ISSN

0001-4575

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