PMID- 37153172
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230509
IS  - 0361-1981 (Print)
IS  - 2169-4052 (Electronic)
IS  - 0361-1981 (Linking)
VI  - 2677
IP  - 4
DP  - 2023 Apr
TI  - Analysis of Motor Vehicle Accidents: Comparison Between Before and During the 
      COVID-19 Lockdown in Maharashtra, India.
PG  - 503-516
LID - 10.1177/03611981221089936 [doi]
AB  - To prevent the pandemic spread of human-to-human transmitted diseases such as 
      COVID-19, governments commonly resort to countrywide or regional lockdown 
      strategies. Such lockdowns, whenever and wherever implemented, curtail the 
      movement of persons and vehicles, and drastically alter traffic conditions. This 
      study focuses on the effect of drastic and sudden changes in the traffic 
      conditions, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the State of Maharashtra in India, in 
      March-June 2020, on the numbers of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), and the 
      resultant fatalities and injuries. Content analysis of police-reported first 
      information reports (FIRs) of MVAs is performed, and these lockdown trends are 
      compared with archival data from corresponding previous (normal) periods. The 
      statistical analysis shows that, during the lockdown, while the total number of 
      MVAs fall drastically, they are more severe and have a much higher fatality rate 
      per MVA. Also, the pattern of vehicles involved in MVAs, and resultant pattern of 
      fatalities, also changes during lockdowns. The paper explores the reasons for 
      these changed patterns and provides suggestions to reduce these negative 
      externalities of pandemic related lockdowns.
CI  - (c) National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2022.
FAU - Arun Pathak, Atul
AU  - Arun Pathak A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0605-7588
AD  - Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, Nagpur, Maharashtra State, India.
FAU - Chandrasekaran, Shabana
AU  - Chandrasekaran S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2644-274X
AD  - Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India.
FAU - Annamalai, Balamurugan
AU  - Annamalai B
AD  - Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, Sambalpur, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220402
PL  - United States
TA  - Transp Res Rec
JT  - Transportation research record
JID - 101481512
PMC - PMC10149498
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - public transport policy
OT  - sustainability and resilience
OT  - traffic safety and traffic management
OT  - transportation and society
OT  - transportation in the developing countries
OT  - travel behavior
COIS- The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the 
      research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
EDAT- 2023/05/08 06:42
MHDA- 2023/05/08 06:43
PMCR- 2022/04/02
CRDT- 2023/05/08 04:12
PHST- 2023/05/08 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/05/08 06:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/05/08 04:12 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/04/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1177_03611981221089936 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/03611981221089936 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Transp Res Rec. 2023 Apr;2677(4):503-516. doi: 10.1177/03611981221089936. Epub 
      2022 Apr 2.