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Figure 9. Outcome of traffic injuries reported to emergency department according toNew Injury Severity Score (NISS) on Karachi-Hala road section (2008)120100DiedAdmitted80DischargedN60402001 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 21 22 25 26 27 29 33 34 35 38 43 50NISSPatient demographicsNames were available for 67.1% of police- and 78% of EAS-reported injury patients (Table6). Information on age was available for 74.1% of police- and 67.6% of EAS-reported injurypatients. Few records in ED dataset were without names (N=12) and age (N=5). Most injurypatients in the three datasets were aged 16-45 years: 61.5% in police, 55.0% in EAS, and78.1% in ED. Similarly, men accounted for a majority of injuries, up to 92.1% of injurypatients in ED.Road user groupThe proportion of pedestrians in police-reported crashes was 3.5% (N=5), whereas this was7.5% in the EAS and 12.7% in the ED. Similarly, the proportion of motorcycle riders inpolice reported crashes were 4.2% whereas this was 9.2% in EAS and 30.6% in ED.Occupants of four-wheeled vehicles accounted for a majority of injuries in the three datasets:83.9% in police, 75.9% in EAS and 49.5% in ED. In the ED, only 15.7% (N=21) of the 154injury patients riding motorcycles were wearing helmets. Similarly, only three out of ninetythreefour-wheeled vehicle occupants were wearing a seat belt at time of crash.33