Through popular notions of accidents and media interpretation of injuries, many people have a perception that mostly all injuries are deemed to be “accidents” and are therefore part of everyday life. However, what people don’t notice is that many of these injuries are preventable if certain regulations, laws, and practices are implemented. For instance, seat belt safety and the widening of roads have decreased the amount of motor vehicle crash and lessened the severity of motor vehicle related injuries.
Many people also don’t know the trends that occur or the statistics that relate to injury. A lot of this information had been mainly for academic or medical uses only, but not for the public. The public’s knowledge on injury is mainly grounded on the media and it’s representation of injuries. Using a Pediatric Trauma Database from 2007-2012 and a paper on Pediatric Trauma, I have compiled a plethora of graphs and charts that represent injuries, not as accidents, but as something that can be predictable and hopefully preventable.
In these 5 graphs, they represent the number of injuries that occur during a whole year span, starting from 2007 to 2012 respectively. I would like to use a program or site like jsfiddle.net to group these graphs together. According to these charts, injuries are very frequent, but in many cases, injuries are more common in the summer time than any other time of the year.
The pie chart below show the percentage and number of injuries that occur to different ethnicities. The first represents males, while the second represents females. The last pie chart shows injuries based on location.
In terms of the time of day injuries occur, this line graph shows that there is a clear trend of when injuries are most likely to happen. The data shows, when patients were brought to the hospitals. Around the hours of 9PM, 10PM, and 12AM are when there is a huge spike of accidents that occur. Nighttime injuries are the most frequent.
This bar graph shows the number of injuries that occur during the days of the week from 2007-2012. From this chart, during the weekdays, the injuries are fairly consistent, but as soon as the weekend rolls around, there are far more injuries, especially on Saturdays.
This map shows the number of injures that occur in each town/city in CT based on Injuries per capita. The map also shows the number of injuries that occur in each city.