Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. 2023 Sep;30(3):439-446. doi: 10.1080/17457300.2023.2210546. Epub 2023 May 10.
Strengthening crash surveillance is an urgent priority for road safety in low- and middle-income countries. We reviewed the online availability and completeness of First Information Reports (FIRs; police reports) of road traffic crashes in India. We developed a relational database to record information extracted from FIRs, and implemented it for one state (Chhattisgarh, 2017-2019). We found that FIRs can be downloaded in bulk from government websites of 15 states and union territories. Another 14 provide access online but restrict bulk downloading, and 7 do not provide online access. For Chhattisgarh, 87% of registered FIRs could be downloaded. Most FIRs reported the date, time, collision-type, and vehicle-types, but important crash characteristics (e.g. infrastructure attributes) were missing. India needs to invest in building the crash surveillance capacity for research and safety management. However, in the interim, maintaining a national database of a sample of FIRs can provide useful policy guidance.
加强碰撞监测是中低收入国家道路安全的当务之急。我们审查了印度道路交通碰撞事故的第一信息报告(FIR;警方报告)的在线可用性和完整性。我们开发了一个关系数据库来记录从 FIR 中提取的信息,并在一个邦(恰蒂斯加尔邦,2017-2019 年)实施了该数据库。我们发现,15 个邦和联邦属地的政府网站可以批量下载 FIR,另有 14 个邦提供在线访问但限制批量下载,7 个邦不提供在线访问。对于恰蒂斯加尔邦,87%的注册 FIR 可以下载。大多数 FIR 报告了日期、时间、碰撞类型和车辆类型,但重要的碰撞特征(例如基础设施属性)缺失。印度需要投资建设用于研究和安全管理的碰撞监测能力。然而,在此期间,维护 FIR 样本的国家数据库可以提供有用的政策指导。