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Pedestrian Injury Severity Analysis In Motor Vehicle Crashes In Ohio, Majbah Uddin, Fahim Ahmed
Pedestrian Injury Severity Analysis In Motor Vehicle Crashes In Ohio, Majbah Uddin, Fahim Ahmed
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 116 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes in Ohio in 2015. However, no study to date has analyzed crashes in Ohio in order to explore the factors contributing to the pedestrian injury severity resulting from motor vehicle crashes. This study fills this gap by investigating the crashes involving pedestrians exclusively in Ohio. This study uses the crash data from the Highway Safety Information System, from 2009 to 2013. The explanatory factors include the pedestrian, driver, vehicle, crash, and roadway characteristics. Both fixed- and random-parameters ordered probit models of injury severity (where …