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Longitudinal pedestrian safety trends for passenger cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs: A 2016-2022 study of Texas.

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Τίτλος: Longitudinal pedestrian safety trends for passenger cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs: A 2016-2022 study of Texas.
Συγγραφείς: Ferenchak NN; Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, United States. Electronic address: ferenchak@unm.edu., Tafoya O; Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, United States. Electronic address: tafoyao@unm.edu., Parajuli S; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States. Electronic address: parajuli@utk.edu., Cherry C; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States. Electronic address: cherry@utk.edu.
Πηγή: Journal of safety research [J Safety Res] 2026 Sep; Vol. 98, pp. 657-668. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Sep 01.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Pergamon Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1264241 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1879-1247 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00224375 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Safety Res Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Publication: Elmsford, NY : Pergamon Press
Original Publication: [Chicago] National Safety Council.
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Accidents, Traffic*/statistics & numerical data , Accidents, Traffic*/mortality , Accidents, Traffic*/trends , Pedestrians*/statistics & numerical data , Motor Vehicles*/statistics & numerical data , Automobiles*/statistics & numerical data , Safety*, Texas/epidemiology ; Wounds and Injuries/epidemiology ; Humans ; Longitudinal Studies
Περίληψη: Introduction: This study examines the relationship between vehicle design and pedestrian safety, focusing on three questions: (a) Are certain vehicle types more likely to strike pedestrians? (b) When a crash occurs, do vehicle types differ in the severity of pedestrian injuries? (c) Have design changes over time correlated with increased pedestrian injury and fatality rates?
Method: We used ANOVA with Tukey's HSD post hoc tests, negative binomial regressions, ordinal logit regressions, and Spearman's rank order correlations to analyze 36,579 pedestrian crashes in Texas between 2016 and 2022 and controlled for exposure via vehicle registrations.
Results: SUVs were 24.0% more likely than passenger cars to strike a pedestrian. Pickup trucks resulted in the highest injury severities (30.5% of pedestrian collisions resulted in a fatal or serious (KA) injury). Full-size SUVs were particularly hazardous, being 2.08 times more likely to strike and 2.12 times more likely to seriously or fatally injure pedestrians than other vehicle types (p < 0.001).
Conclusions: Vehicle height, rather than weight, was a stronger predictor of injury severity. Longitudinal increases in grille height were most closely linked with increases in pedestrian injury severity over the study period. Additionally, vehicle aging correlated with a rise in pedestrian injury severity.
Practical Applications: By highlighting the heightened risks posed by taller front-end profiles and aging vehicles, the study provides evidence to support design modifications and regulatory interventions aimed at reducing pedestrian injuries and fatalities.
(Copyright © 2026 National Safety Council and Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Aging vehicles; Crash biomechanics; Exposure; Motor vehicle type; Vehicle design
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260915 Date Completed: 20260915 Latest Revision: 20261006
Update Code: 20261006
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2026.08.001
PMID: 42744514
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE
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