Comparison of the number of pedestrian and cyclist injuries captured in police data compared with health service utilisation data in Toronto, Canada 2016– 2021
CARSP Webinar Series
Date/Time
Date(s) - March 1, 2024
12:00 pm EST - 1:00 pm EST
This webinar will present the results of a study attempting to compare the number of police-reported collisions with emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations in Toronto, Canada. More specifically, this study focused on evaluating the differences between police-reported and health services data for all cyclists, cyclists involved in a motor vehicle collision, and pedestrians over a period of five years from 2016 to 2021.
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Speakers
Alison Macpherson
Dr. Alison Macpherson is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University and an adjunct senior scientist at IC/ES. Her research is related to keeping kids active, healthy, and safe, and focuses on the prevention of childhood injuries primarily through policies and laws designed to reduce injuries.
Linda Rothman
Dr. Linda Rothman BScOT, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the School of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University, an Adjunct Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children, and an Assistant Professor (status only) at Dalla Lana, School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Her area of expertise is in active transportation and vulnerable road user injuries in urban environments as a public health issue. Her recent research projects include studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on road traffic volumes and collisions in Canadian cities with a social equity lens. This work includes the evaluation of new road design modifications such as cycle tracks, reduced speed limits and automated speed enforcement.