Are child pedestrians at increased risk of injury on one-way compared to two-way streets?

Objectives: To compare child pedestrian injury rates on one-way versus two- way streets in Hamilton, and examine whether the characteristics of child p edestrian injuries differ across street types. Methods: The rates of injury per child population, per kilometre, per year were calculated age, sex and socio-economic status (SES), lid, environment and driver characteristics i were investigated by street type. on one-way s treets than on Mio-way streets and Results: The injury race was 2.5 times higher 3 times higher for children f rom the poorest 5 neighbourhoods than for those from wealthier neighbourhoo ds. SES, injury severity, number lanes, collision location and type of traf fic control were also found to be significantly different across street typ es. Conclusions: One-way streets have highers of child pedestrian injuries than two-way :sin this community. Future risk factor intervention studies shoul d include the directionality of streets to further investigate its contribu tion to child pedestrian injuries.