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April 2007, Vol 97, No. Supplement_1 | American Journal of Public Health S4-S5
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.107375

LETTER

SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLES AND VULNERABLE ROAD USERS

Ediriweera Desapriya, PhD, Ian Pike, PhD and Kate Turcotte, MSc

All of the authors are with the Center for Community Child Health Research, British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Vancouver.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ediriweera Desapriya, Center for Community Child Health Research, British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, 4480 Oak St, L 408, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3V4 Canada (e-mail: edesap@cw.bc.ca).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We read with interest the article by Robertson,1 and we certainly agree that the sports utility vehicles (SUVs) pose an increased risk to small car occupants as well as vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, older persons, and children.2

In many developing countries, pedestrians, cyclists, rickshaw operators, and moped users represent the majority of road users. These countries rarely have the resources to physically separate such road users from car traffic. Many developing countries have no sidewalks or bicycle paths and those that do exist are heavily obstructed by trees, trash, drainage ditches, and vendors selling goods.

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