TITLE:
Analysis of Characteristics of Road Traffic Accident Casualties in Guilin
AUTHORS:
Wenyu Qin, Xiang Liu, Zhibin Kong
KEYWORDS:
Road Traffic Crashes, Road Traffic Injuries, Injury Characteristics
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.6 No.6,
June
11,
2018
ABSTRACT: Objectives: To explore the characteristics of road traffic accident casualties and time distribution characteristics of road traffic crashes in Guilin. Methods: We analyzed the data of road traffic crashes in 2007-2014 of Guilin to explore the casualty’s features of road traffic injuries and time distribution characteristics of road traffic crashes. Results: A total of 3162 road traffic accident casualties were studied. The majority of the study subjects were males (63.23%) who suffered almost twice as females. The casualties’ ages ranged from 5 to 78 years with the mean age 33.65 ± 16.76 years. The mortality rate of RTCs was significantly higher in males than in females (61.39 versus 38.61, P