The NTS data does not record incident location or date, making it hard to match to police or hospital statistics. It does however include information on whether another road user was involved. The NTS data also includes information on:
Based on the responses given to the National taiwan rcs data Travel Survey, incidents in the previous year was derivable: 2474 people – 1.7% of the full sample.
Comparing the results with injuries reported in the police Stats19 data suggest five times more self-report injuries than are recorded by the police, roughly in line with a quarter of National Travel Survey incidents having involved the police being present.
When considering ‘vulnerable’ groups of road users (i.e. cyclists and pedestrians), Rachel discovered that incidents involving injury are disproportionately higher than for other road users in the past three years and even more so when looking only at the previous year.
A particularly large number of slight injuries to cyclists are not reported to the police. This might help account for perceptions of cycling as a risky activity. The graph below shows that in police injury data, 8% of injured people were cycling. But in the NTS data, this rises to 16% of those injured during the past year.