Early Impact of a National Multi-Faceted Road Safety Intervention Program in Mexico: Results of a Time-Series Analysis

Aruna Chandran, Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, Abdulgafoor M Bachani, Martha Híjar, Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez and Adnan A Hyder

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Background: In January 2008, a national multifaceted road safety intervention program (IMESEVI) funded by the Bloomberg Philanthropies was launched in Mexico. Two years later in 2010, IMESEVI was refocused as part of a 10-country international consortium demonstration project (IMESEVI/RS10). We evaluate the initial effects of each phase of the road safety intervention project on numbers of RT crashes, injuries and deaths in Mexico and in the two main target cities of Guadalajara-Zapopan and León. Methods: An interrupted time series analysis using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling was performed using monthly data of rates of RT crashes and injuries (police data), as well as deaths (mortality system data) from 1999–2011 with dummy variables representing each intervention phase. Results: In the period following the first intervention phase at the country level and in the city of León, the rate of RT crashes decreased significantly (p

Date: 2014
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