Jennissen Charles A, Harland Karisa K, Denning Gerene M
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Safety (Basel). 2016 Apr 5;2(2). doi: 10.3390/safety2020010.
Side-by-side (SxS) vehicles have become increasingly popular, but there are few reports on injury epidemiology. Newspaper reports of SxS and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crashes were analyzed for nine U.S. states from 2009 to 2011, including comparisons between the two vehicle types. Seventy-nine SxS crashes involving 104 injured victims were identified; three-fourths were males. There was a relatively high percentage of injured passengers (37%), and a higher proportion of female victims were passengers as compared to males (p = 0.015). Children <16 years of age were 44% of those injured and had the highest proportion of both passenger and operator victims as compared to other age groups. Over half of the crashes occurred on roadways; nearly two-fifths occurred at night. As compared to adults, a lower percentage of crashes involving youth were at night (p = 0.0037) but the percentages on roadways were similar. Only one in five roadway SxS crashes involved a collision with a motorized vehicle. Rollovers were the most common mechanism (50%). Two-thirds of victims were ejected, and one-half were struck or pinned by the vehicle. Twenty-eight deaths (27%) were reported. Although most current SxSs have roll bars, lack of safety belt use has likely reduced their benefit. Children should be prohibited from operating SxSs.
并排式（SxS）车辆越来越受欢迎，但关于其伤害流行病学的报道却很少。对2009年至2011年美国九个州报纸报道的SxS和全地形车（ATV）碰撞事故进行了分析，包括两种车型之间的比较。确定了79起涉及104名受伤受害者的SxS碰撞事故；四分之三为男性。受伤乘客的比例相对较高（37%），与男性相比，女性受害者中乘客的比例更高（p = 0.015）。16岁以下儿童占受伤者的44%，与其他年龄组相比，乘客和驾驶员受害者的比例最高。超过一半的碰撞事故发生在道路上；近五分之二发生在夜间。与成年人相比，涉及青少年的碰撞事故中夜间发生的比例较低（p = 0.0037），但在道路上发生的比例相似。在道路上的SxS碰撞事故中，只有五分之一涉及与机动车辆的碰撞。翻车是最常见的事故机制（50%）。三分之二的受害者被甩出车外，一半被车辆撞击或挤压。报告了28起死亡事故（27%）。尽管目前大多数SxS都有防滚架，但安全带使用不足可能降低了其保护作用。应禁止儿童操作SxS。
