In reply: We acknowledge our error in reporting Henley and Harrison’s findings,1 and commend Bradley and colleagues for providing information about traffic and non-traffic transport injuries separately. We are also pleased that the National Injury Surveillance Unit will soon publish a report including analysis of trends in non-traffic transport injuries, extending our analyses beyond New South Wales. This is consistent with our conclusion that more needs to be done to understand non-traffic crashes.2 We defend our claim that the statistics in many reports and articles often do not clearly distinguish between traffic and non-traffic crashes and injuries.
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- 1 New South Wales Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW.
- 2 The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
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- 2. Chong S, Du W, Hatfield J. Trends in the inci-dence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007. Med J Aust 2010; 193: 223-226. <MJA full text>