Case-control study of fatal bicycle crashes in peri-urban areas of Delhi.

Objectives: There is a lack of evidence on interventions to improve the safety of cycling use in low- and middle-income countries. We investigated the impact of road design and traffic characteristics on the fatality risk of bicyclists.

Methods: Our study population is the road sites in the peri-urban areas of New Delhi, India.

Cycle fatalities in Delhi and their risk factors.

There is a lack of research that investigates the risk factors of cycling in low- and middle-income countries. We present descriptive epidemiology of crashes that involved at least one fatal cyclist, over a three-year period (2016-2018) in Delhi, India. Next, we used an unmatched case-control approach to identify road design risk factors of cycle fatalities.