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Epidemiología de incidentes viales Medellín-Colombia, 2010-2015

2017; Universidad de Antioquia; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17533/udea.rfnsp.v35n1a02

0120-064X

Adriana Espinosa López, Gustavo Cabrera Arana, Natalia Osorio,

Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces

Road traffic incidents (RTI) transfer kinetic energy between inert and living surfaces on roads. They cause fatal and non-fatal injuries, affecting people's health, well-being and productivity. They are not random, and they are not accidents like the United Nations pointed out many decades ago. Objective: the purpose of this study is to describe RTAepidemiology in Medellin from 2010 to 2015 as a referent and propose a road traffic management model- a RTMM. Methodology: this is a retrospective study using different RTI sources and a univariate or bivariate analysis. Results: from 2010 to 2015, there was an increasing RTI record of 275,000 events, with a mean of 45,000/year and 135/day, and what has not been recorded could be 4 times more. There were injuries in 50% of the RTI recorded in police traffic accident reports (PTAR), with a mean of 300 casualties/year an approximately 3,000 injured/ year. However, the non-recorded injured could be ten times more, 30,000/year. Most RTIs affect the poor, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists mainly males of ages 15 to 29 in residential areas. Conclusions: leadership, government policies, a Road Traffic Safety Observatory and Safe Mobility Plan Management up to 2020 are critical to decrease RTI risk, exposure and frequency.