Ed, FYI...See response below from a colleague in CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention & Control. Chris Kochtitzky, MSP -------------------------------- Hi Chris, The NEISS data will capture this information for ED visits at a national level, but not at a sub-national level. Vital Statistics data should do the same for deaths but there are some limitations in ICD-10 coding for "road user type" (such that a large percentage are classified as "unknown road user type"). Both data sources can be queried here, and query options include a choice of injuries that occur in traffic, not in traffic, or both settings. Laurie Beck, MPH CDC/Injury Center Please note part-time work schedule: Mon-Thurs, 8:30a-2:00p -----Original Message----- From: h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:h+t--friends-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:00 PM To: h+t--friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net Subject: H+T--Friends Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5 Send H+T--Friends mailing list submissions to h+t--friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h+t--friends-request(a)ryoko.chrispy.net You can reach the person managing the list at h+t--friends-owner(a)ryoko.chrispy.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of H+T--Friends digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: bike injuries (mbrenman001(a)comcast.net) 2. Re: bike injuries (mbrenman001(a)comcast.net) 3. Unsubscribe (Rodney.Vaughn(a)dot.gov) 4. Re: A Data Question (Henderson, David (MPO)) 5. Re: A Data Question (Henderson, David (MPO)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:03:34 +0000 (UTC) From: mbrenman001(a)comcast.net Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] bike injuries To: TRB Health and Transportation <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net>et>, Rajiv.Bhatia(a)sfdph.org, edc(a)berwyned.com Cc: meganwier(a)gmail.com, Rochelle Dicker <DickerR(a)sfghsurg.ucsf.edu> Message-ID: <1587119523.50441.1358528614311.JavaMail.root(a)sz0050a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I would submit that another likely cause for a rise in bike injuries is lack of attention to and compliance with rules of the road by bicyclists. Who among has not noticed bicyclists running red lights, not stopping for stop lights, weaving through traffic, not using hand signals, etc? Marc Brenman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rajiv Bhatia" <Rajiv.Bhatia(a)sfdph.org> To: "TRB Health and Transportation" <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Cc: meganwier(a)gmail.com, "Rochelle Dicker" <DickerR(a)sfghsurg.ucsf.edu> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 8:42:20 AM Subject: [H+T--Friends] bike injuries Ed: In SF, we have also observed a very high proportion of bike injuries going unreported. Rochelle Dicker, cc'd above and head of the SFGHMC trauma unit, has done some thinking and analysis on this issue using hospital records. As you know, SF has had a fairly agressive bike infrastructure program with strong political support. Bicycling behavior has increased substantially over the past decade as evidenced by serial bike counts. Unfortunately, reported bike collision injury frequency almost doubled over the past 5 or 6 years despite the investments in bike facilities. Potential culprits here could be the co-location of bike facilities on arterials, newer riders, and the lack of reduction in vehicle traffic. The confluence of new infrastructure, growth in riders, growth in injuries suggest that SF may be a good place to study the safety effects of new bike infrastructure in an existing urban context. Locally, we are also very interested in redesigning our traffic injury surveillence system to integrate hospital, police, and ambulence records and add public health / environmental surveillence components. There are some good models in other countries. We have political committment and data sharing agreements but lack $$ -- I am told that local transportation $$ coming to cities cannot be used for such purposes. rb Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH Director, Environmental Health, Department of Public Health 1390 Market Street, Suite 822 San Francisco, CA 94102 (e) rajiv.bhatia(a)sfdph.org (t) 415 2523931 (w) www.sfenvironmentalhealth.org; www.sfphes.org From: Ed Christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> To: TRB Health and Transportation <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Date: 01/17/2013 02:11 PM Subject: [H+T--Friends] A Data Question Sent by: h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net It was nice to see everyone at TRB. While there I was in a discussion about the probably that bike crashes that result in injuries might be under represented in our crash data. Especially when you consider that a high percentage of the crashes do not involve a motor vehicle and never make it to police records. If i were trying to get a handle on this at a regional or state level are there any "non-traditional" sources of data like hospital records that can be used. Anyone doing any work in this area? This is becoming ever so important as we see more and mode shifting going on. _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends