Table 3

Odds of unsafe pedestrian behaviour by distraction, gender and age (n=1102)

	OR	95% CI	p Value
Not looking left and right:
Distraction
Handheld phone	0.97	0.56 to 1.82	0.91
Hands-free phone	0.94	0.37 to 2.44	0.91
Text messaging	4.00	2.04 to 7.84	0.00
Listening to music	1.69	1.06 to 2.66	0.03
Other	2.86	1.19 to 6.98	0.02
In a group, talking	1.69	1.08 to 2.59	0.02
Female gender	1.69	1.27 to 2.20	0.00
Age group
<18 years	1.23	0.52 to 2.94	0.64
18–24 years
25–44 years	1.30	0.90 to 1.86	0.16
45–64 years	0.93	0.61 to 1.43	0.76
65+ years	0.94	0.48 to 1.88	0.87
Not crossing at crosswalk:
Distraction
Handheld phone	0.33	0.04 to 2.48	0.28
Hands-free phone	1.11	0.14 to 9.12	0.91
Text messaging	1.47	0.53 to 4.01	0.46
Listening to music	1.75	0.79 to 3.94	0.16
Other	1.43	0.31 to 6.62	0.65
In a group, talking*	-	-	-
Gender	0.71	0.38 to 1.34	0.29
Age group
<18 years	1.11	0.22 to 5.70	0.90
18–24 years
25–44 years	0.48	0.24 to 0.96	0.39
45–64 years	0.40	0.15 to 1.07	0.07
65+ years	0.33	0.04 to 2.66	0.30
Not obeying the lights:
Distraction
Handheld phone	1.18	0.54 to 2.53	0.70
Hands-free phone	0.90	0.20 to 4.10	0.90
Text messaging	0.92	0.44 to 1.90	0.80
Listening to music	1.33	0.76 to 2.36	0.32
Other	1.06	0.38 to 2.97	0.90
In a group, talking	0.76	0.39 to 1.52	0.45
Female gender	0.72	0.49 to 1.06	0.10
Looking both ways	2.78	1.84 to 4.22	0.00
Age group:
<18 years	2.78	1.11 to 7.10	0.03
18–24 years	Ref.
25–44 years	0.72	0.44 to 1.17	0.19
45–64 years.	0.72	0.39 to 1.34	0.30
65+ years	0.34	0.10 to 1.22	0.10

Data in bold are significant to p<0.05. For gender-specific data, males were the gender reference group.
*Too few subjects in this category to calculate an OR.