Research Article
Identifying Factors Contributing to the Motorcycle Crash Severity in Pakistan
Table 1
Descriptive statistics of variables.
| Variable | Description | Frequency | Percentage |
| Injury severity | Non-fatal | 28460 | 98.50 | Fatal | 434 | 1.50 |
| Season | Spring | 6681 | 23.12 | Summer | 7833 | 27.11 | Autumn | 6734 | 23.31 | Winter | 7646 | 26.46 |
| Day of week | Weekends | 8610 | 29.80 | Weekdays | 20284 | 70.20 |
| Time of day | Morning (06 : 00–08 : 59) | 1473 | 5.10 | Noon (09 : 00–11 : 59) | 4550 | 15.75 | Afternoon (11 : 59–14 : 59) | 5469 | 18.93 | Early evening (15 : 00–17 : 59) | 6042 | 20.90 | Late evening (18 : 00–20 : 59) | 5955 | 20.61 | Night (20 : 59–05 : 59) | 5405 | 18.71 |
| Peak/Off-peak | Peak | 9044 | 31.30 | Off-peak | 19850 | 68.70 |
| Collision type | Single vehicle | 16152 | 55.90 | Multivehicle | 12742 | 44.10 |
| Collision vehicle | Bicycle | 56 | 0.44 | Motorcycle | 3988 | 31.30 | Passenger vehicle | 956 | 7.50 | Heavy vehicle | 242 | 1.90 | Pedestrian | 7151 | 56.12 | Other | 349 | 2.74 |
| Pillion passenger | Present | 2820 | 9.76 | Not present | 26074 | 90.24 |
| Female pillion passenger cloth stuck in wheel | Yes | 813 | 2.81 | No | 28081 | 97.19 |
| Gender | Male | 24668 | 85.37 | Female | 4226 | 14.63 |
| Age | ≤24 | 14027 | 48.55 | 25–40 | 9914 | 34.31 | 41–54 | 3262 | 11.29 | ≥55 | 1691 | 5.85 |
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