Characteristics of Side-by-Side Vehicle Crashes and Related Injuries as Determined Using Newspaper Reports from Nine U.S. States

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• Alternative Title:
  Safety (Basel)
• Personal Author:
  Jennissen, Charles A. ; Harland, Karisa K. ; Denning, Gerene M.
• Description:
  Side-by-side (SxS) vehicles have become increasingly popular, but there are few reports on injury epidemiology. Newspaper reports of SxS and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crashes were analyzed for nine U.S. states from 2009 to 2011, including comparisons between the two vehicle types. Seventy-nine SxS crashes involving 104 injured victims were identified; three-fourths were males. There was a relatively high percentage of injured passengers (37%), and a higher proportion of female victims were passengers as compared to males (p = 0.015). Children <16 years of age were 44% of those injured and had the highest proportion of both passenger and operator victims as compared to other age groups. Over half of the crashes occurred on roadways; nearly two-fifths occurred at night. As compared to adults, a lower percentage of crashes involving youth were at night (p = 0.0037) but the percentages on roadways were similar. Only one in five roadway SxS crashes involved a collision with a motorized vehicle. Rollovers were the most common mechanism (50%). Two-thirds of victims were ejected, and one-half were struck or pinned by the vehicle. Twenty-eight deaths (27%) were reported. Although most current SxSs have roll bars, lack of safety belt use has likely reduced their benefit. Children should be prohibited from operating SxSs.
• Subjects:
  All-terrain Vehicle Article Crash Injury Prevention Pediatric Recreational Off-highway Vehicle Roadway Rollover Safety Side-by-side Vehicle Utility Task Vehicle

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• Source:
  Safety (Basel). 2(2)
• Pubmed ID:
  35979514
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9380433
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U54 OH007548/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f78a6b522ca4e86681ba35fe53d32824c45a29976bb72365246ff5459c1e1ce0
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