Are there sex differences in crash and crash-related injury between men and women? A 13-year cohort study of young drivers in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Young men have long been known to be disproportionately impacted by road crash and crash-related injury compared to young women and older drivers. However, there is limited insight into how sex differences in crash and crash-related injury changes over time as men and women get older and gain more driving experience. To explore sex differences in crash and crash-related injury, we undertook a sex disaggregated analysis in a large longitudinal cohort of over 20,000 young drivers in New South Wales, Australia, for up to 13 years after they first attained their independent car driver licence.

Methods

DRIVE Study survey data from 2003-04 were linked with police, hospital and deaths data up to 2016. Sex differences were analysed using cumulative incidence curves invest

SUBMITTER: Cullen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141461 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature