Comparisons of Traffic Collisions between Expressways and Rural Roads in Truck Drivers

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• 作者：Sangbok Lee ; Byung Yong Jeong ; ^{byjeong@hansung.ac.kr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：accident analysis ; road type ; traffic collisions ; truck driver
• 刊名：Safety and Health at Work
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：38-42
• 全文大小：196 K

文摘

Truck driving is known as one of the occupations with the highest accident rate. This study investigates the characteristics of traffic collisions according to road types (expressway and rural road).

Methods

ra0015">Classifying 267 accidents into expressway and rural road, we analyzed them based on driver characteristics (age, working experience, size of employment), time characteristics (day of accident, time, weather), and accident characteristics (accident causes, accident locations, accident types, driving conditions).

Results

ra0020">When we compared the accidents by road conditions, no differences were found between the driver characteristics. However, from the accident characteristics, the injured person distributions were different by the road conditions. In particular, driving while drowsy is shown to be highly related with the accident characteristics.

Conclusion

ra0025">This study can be used as a guideline and a base line to develop a plan of action to prevent traffic accidents. It can also help to prepare formal regulations about a truck driver's vehicle maintenance and driving attitude for a precaution on road accidents.