Developing a national database of police-reported fatal road traffic crashes for road safety research and management in India.

IF 2.3 4区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-10 DOI:10.1080/17457300.2023.2210546

Arunabha Banerjee, Abhaya Jha, Basit Farooq, Dinesh Mohan, Geetam Tiwari, Kavi Bhalla, Rahul Goel

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Strengthening crash surveillance is an urgent priority for road safety in low- and middle-income countries. We reviewed the online availability and completeness of First Information Reports (FIRs; police reports) of road traffic crashes in India. We developed a relational database to record information extracted from FIRs, and implemented it for one state (Chhattisgarh, 2017-2019). We found that FIRs can be downloaded in bulk from government websites of 15 states and union territories. Another 14 provide access online but restrict bulk downloading, and 7 do not provide online access. For Chhattisgarh, 87% of registered FIRs could be downloaded. Most FIRs reported the date, time, collision-type, and vehicle-types, but important crash characteristics (e.g. infrastructure attributes) were missing. India needs to invest in building the crash surveillance capacity for research and safety management. However, in the interim, maintaining a national database of a sample of FIRs can provide useful policy guidance.

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为印度的道路安全研究和管理开发一个警察报告的致命道路交通事故国家数据库。

加强碰撞监测是中低收入国家道路安全的当务之急。我们审查了印度道路交通事故首次信息报告（FIRs；警方报告）的在线可用性和完整性。我们开发了一个关系数据库来记录从FIRs中提取的信息，并在一个州实现了该数据库（恰蒂斯加尔邦，2017-2019）。我们发现，FIRs可以从15个州和联邦直辖区的政府网站上批量下载。另外14个提供在线访问，但限制批量下载，7个不提供在线访问。对于恰蒂斯加尔邦，87%的注册FIRs可以下载。大多数FIRs报告了日期、时间、碰撞类型和车辆类型，但缺少重要的碰撞特征（如基础设施属性）。印度需要投资建设用于研究和安全管理的碰撞监测能力。然而，在此期间，维护一个FIRs样本的国家数据库可以提供有用的政策指导。

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International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (formerly Injury Control and Safety Promotion) publishes articles concerning all phases of injury control, including prevention, acute care and rehabilitation. Specifically, this journal will publish articles that for each type of injury: •describe the problem •analyse the causes and risk factors •discuss the design and evaluation of solutions •describe the implementation of effective programs and policies The journal encompasses all causes of fatal and non-fatal injury, including injuries related to: •transport •school and work •home and leisure activities •sport •violence and assault