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This paper describes a case study in Flanders–Belgium on the reporting rate of road crashes. Crash data from three sources were compared: official crash data, data retrieved from an insurance company and newspaper articles. A sample of 140 injury crashes with motorcyclists from an insurance company was used as the reference category. The purpose was to explore factors that contribute to the likelihood of crashes (not) to be reported in official statistics and newspapers. Logistic regression analyses and chi-square tests were used to reveal differences in reporting rate according to some variables. About 80% of the crashes with severe injuries were reported in the official statistics whereas the reporting rate for crashes with slightly injured was about 55%. Newspapers covered about 50% of crashes with severe injuries. The reporting rate in both official statistics and newspapers increased with the severity of the crash.
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Building on the existing social and health sciences knowledge base, we explore the ways in which traffic accidents on South African roads are constructed by the media and how these constructions are related to the media's role in supporting hegemonic interests, producing public consensus and promoting public agency. Discourse analysis was used to analyse 52 South African newspaper articles that reported on traffic accidents during the Easter weekend and the festive season in 2005/6. The a nalysis suggests that well-crafted h eadline me ssages and multiple d iscourses, predicated by a range of news-values and specific framing modalities, are interwoven to project the dominant view that over the holiday season South African roads are war-zones. Irresponsible and reckless drivers, in particular taxi drivers, are typecast as 'unworthy' citizens and habitual perpe- trators of the 'carnage' on the roads. Motorists and occupants of public transport vehicles feature prominently as the primary victims of traffic deaths. Pedestrians and motorcyclists are among the less frequently mentioned victims. In contrast to the villains of the road, traffic safety officers are presented as the protectors of law-abiding citizens and emergency care workers, characterised as altruistic and angelic, are described as the rescuers who heal the wounded. Whereas the non- dominant discourse alerts the reader to pedestrian vulnerability, certain contextual determinants of traffic deaths, some successes in traffic safety promotion, and the dominant discourses suggest that the panacea for traffic safety is primarily rooted in proper road behaviour and law-enforcement. The analysis points to silences related to societal, institutional, and corporate responsibility in road safety and highlights the need to engage the print media toward assuring evidence-led reporting of traffic accidents.
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