Aboriginal Injury-related Hospitalisation 1991/92 - ROAD transport
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Table 5: Summary of road transport injury hospitalisations among Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginals, Australia (except NT),
1991/92.
| Mode of transport |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples |
Non-Aboriginals |
| Age-adjusted rate (per 100,000) |
Age-adjusted rate (per 100,000) |
Ratio of age-adjusted rates: A&TSI peoples to non- Aboriginals |
| Motor vehicle driver |
40 |
53 |
0.7 |
| Motor vehicle passenger |
77 |
40 |
1.9 |
| Motor cyclist |
26 |
44 |
0.6 |
| Pedal cyclist |
33 |
31 |
1.1 |
| Pedestrian |
69 |
25 |
2.7 |
A comparison of the relative contribution of the different modes of transport
to injury hospitalisations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
non-Aboriginal populations is presented in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Contribution of modes of transport to injury hospitalisations in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginal populations,
Australia (except NT), 1991/92.
When compared with non-Aboriginals, motor vehicle occupants from Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities are more likely to be injured and
hospitalised in crashes as passengers and less likely as drivers. The rate of
hospitalisation for injuries sustained as a pedestrian in Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples is more than two and a half times that of
non-Aboriginals. Motorcycling injuries requiring hospitalisation in Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander populations account for 12 percent of all road
transport injury hospitalisations, which is about half of the corresponding
proportion in non-Aboriginals. It is likely that the different patterns of road
transport hospitalisations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
non-Aboriginals arise from different exposures to risk of injury which include
factors such as the physical road environment, cultural norms, usage of
different modes of transport, and attitudes and behaviours to road safety.
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