Does street lighting reduce injuries caused by road traffic accidents? Evidence Update, Trauma Series, June 2011
Abstract
Each Evidence Update is a 2-page summary of a Cochrane Review of healthcare interventions relevant to people in low-income and middle-income countries. This Evidence Update is adapted from Beyer FR, Ker K. Street lighting for preventing road traffic injuries. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 1. Art. No: CD004728. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD004728.pub2.
By 2020, an estimated 2.3 million people will die each year in road traffic crashes, 90% of them in low- and middle-income countries. The risk of crashing is higher in the dark than in daylight; street lighting is a relatively low cost intervention that may prevent crashes.
The authors of the review concluded that evidence on the effects of street lighting on death and injury in road-users at night is limited.
Citation
Jones, B. Does street lighting reduce injuries caused by road traffic accidents? Evidence Update, Trauma Series, June 2011. Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK (2011) 2 pp.
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