RT Journal Article
T1 Which is the role of driver- or passengers-sex on the severity of road crashes?
A1 Lardelli-Claret, Pablo
A1 Fernandez-Martinez, Nicolas Francisco
A1 Martin-delosReyes, Luis Miguel
A1 Jimenez-Mejias, Eladio
A1 Rivera-Izquierdo, Mario
A1 Martinez-Ruiz, Virginia
K1 Death
K1 Gender
K1 Severity
K1 Sex
K1 Traffic accident
AB Aim: The aim of the study is to quantify the main ways in which the sex of the driver/occupant of a passenger car affects the severity of road crashes.Methods: All 171 230 cars occupied by the driver and one or more passengers included in the Spanish Register of Victims of Road Crashes from 2014 to 2020 were included. We designed two cohort studies: In the first one, we estimated the Incidence Rate Ratios (IRR) between the sex of the drivers and the occurrence of any death and/or severe injuries among their passengers. In the second one we estimated the conditioned IRR between the sex of the occupants of the same car and their risk of death and/or severe injuries. We used fixed Poisson models to obtain IRR estimates, crude and adjusted by individual- environment- and vehicle-related variables.Results: A consistent inverse relationship between driver's female sex and passenger's severity was found, (IRR 0.72, 95 % CI 0.68-0.77), stronger for single crashes (IRR 0.67, 95 % CI 0.60-0.65). The magnitude decreased after adjusting for vehicle- and environment-related variables (IRR 0.82, 95 % CI 0.73-0.92). In the second study, the risk of death or hospitalization was higher for occupants of female sex (IRR 1.23, 95 % CI 1.17-1.30).Conclusions: The risk of death or severe injuries among passengers of cars involved in single crashes is lower for female drivers, probably due to safer driving. On the contrary, in similar crashes, the risk of injuries leading to hospitalization is higher for females.
PB Elsevier
YR 2024
FD 2024-07-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10668/24318
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10668/24318
LA en
NO Lardelli-Claret P, Fernández-Martínez NF, Martín-delosReyes LM, Jiménez-Mejías E, Rivera-Izquierdo M, Martínez-Ruiz V. Which is the role of driver- or passengers-sex on the severity of road crashes? Heliyon. 2024 Jul 10;10(14):e34472
NO This study was funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain) co-financed with European Funds (FEDER and FSE+) within the project “Cuantificacion ´ de las diferencias por sexo en la cadena causal de la morbimortalidad por trafico ´ en Espana, ˜ entre 1993 y 2020” [Quantification of sex differences in the causal chain of road traffic morbidity and mortality in Spain between 1993 and 2020], code PI22/01094.
DS RISalud
RD Apr 9, 2025