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Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions

Injury prevention, 2022-06, Vol.28 (3), p.243-248 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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    Pilot study to evaluate school safety zone built environment interventions
  • Author: Rothman, Linda ; Ling, Rebecca ; Hagel, Brent E ; Macarthur, Colin ; Macpherson, Alison K ; Buliung, Ron ; Fuselli, Pamela ; Howard, Andrew William
  • Subjects: Accident prevention ; child ; driver ; environmental modification ; Fatalities ; interventions ; Original Research ; pedestrian ; Pedestrians ; Schools ; Socioeconomic factors ; speed ; Students ; Traffic accidents & safety
  • Is Part Of: Injury prevention, 2022-06, Vol.28 (3), p.243-248
  • Description: BackgroundSchool safety zones were created in 2017 under the City of Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. This pilot study examined the effect of built environment interventions on driver speeds, active school transportation (AST) and dangerous driving.MethodsInterventions were implemented at 34 schools and 45 matched controls (2017–2019). Drivers travelling over the speed limit of >30 km/hour and 85th percentile speeds were measured using pneumatic speed tubes at school frontages. Observers examined AST and dangerous driving at school arrival times. Repeated measures beta and multiple regression analyses were used to study the intervention effects.ResultsMost schools had posted speed limits of 40 km/hour (58%) or ≥50 km/hour (23%). A decrease in drivers travelling over the speed limit was observed at intervention schools post-intervention (from 44% to 40%; OR 0.79, 95% CI 0.66 to 0.96). Seventy-one per cent of drivers travelled >30 km/hour and the 85th percentile speed was 47 km/hour at intervention schools, with no change in either postintervention. There were no changes in speed metrics in the controls. AST increased by 5% (OR 1.22, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.54) at intervention schools. Reductions in dangerous driving were observed at all schools.ConclusionsPosted speed limits were >30 km/hour at most schools and high proportions of drivers were travelling above the speed limits. There were reductions in drivers exceeding the speed limit and in dangerous driving, and modest increased AST post intervention. Bolder interventions to slow traffic are required to effectively reduce speeding around schools, which may increase safe AST.
  • Publisher: England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1353-8047
    EISSN: 1475-5785
    DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044299
    PMID: 34462331
  • Source: BMJ Open Access Journals
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