Association of high profile football matches in Europe with traffic accidents in Asia: archival study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the association between popular football games played in Europe and the incidence of traffic accidents in Asia.

Design

Study based on 41 538 traffic accidents involving taxis in Singapore and 1 814 320 traffic accidents in Taiwan, combined with 12 788 European club football games over a seven year period.

Setting

Singapore and Taiwan.

Participants

The largest taxi company in Singapore, with fine grained traffic accident records in a three year span; all traffic accident records in Taiwan in a six year span.

Exposure

Days when high profile football games were played or not played.

Main outcome measure

Number of traffic accidents.

Results

Regression based and time series models suggest that days with high profile Euro

SUBMITTER: Yam KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7737651 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature