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Factors related to road accidents in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia

International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS), 2021

Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and a leading cause of death and injury worldwide. More than 90% of all road deaths occur in lowand middle-income countries, which own less than half of the world's vehicles. The research aimed was to identify the factors related to road accidents in Palembang, Indonesia. The research method used was qualitative approach by using in-depth interviews and observation. This research was conducted from August to December, 2019. The results showed that the factors related to road accidents were human factor, environmental and climatic factor. From this research, the working areas identified as accidentprone zone were Sukarami II and Ilir Barat I Police Station. Referring to the accident and interviews, it is known that the road locations that have the highest casualties were in the road of Kolonel H. Barlian, Jendral Sudirman, Demang Lebar Daun, Ahmad Yani, and Soekarno Hatta. The conclusion was the accident-prone zone located on the main arterial road in Palembang City, Jendral Sudirman Road with a total of 81 cases of traffic accidents in the last three years that need further investigation to minimize traffic injury.

Accident Among Children in Indonesia Urban Areas

2017

Road crash fatalities in Indonesia are substantially high with around 30,000 deaths annually, in which 12 percent of them were children age below 15 years old. They are not only just a victim, but also 13 percent of them were a preparatory of accidents because of the underage motorcycle riders and community ignorance. The safety of children younger than 15 years in low and middle income countries receives substantial attention from road safety advocates activist in Indonesia. The study objectives are to highlight the magnitude of the problem in particularly associated to motorcycle and pedestrian accidents among the children in five metropolitan cities with highest number of accidents and then adjusting to the population cohort structure to find whether there a substantial exposure problem compare to the adult. The finding will be important for advocates’ road safety program to the children in Indonesia. K eywords : road safety, road traffic accident, children casualties, children f...

Description of Safety Riding Behavior and Knowledge in Adolescents in The South Tangerang Area

Muhammadiyah International Public Health and Medicine Proceeding

Advances in science and technology make the growth rate of vehicles increasing and bring a positive impact on human welfare. The increasing use of vehicles also harms the highway, such as traffic density and vehicles have a very high level of accidents so that motor vehicles become one of the human killers through traffic accidents. Descriptive research method with qualitative approach with phenomenology method. Samples in this study as many as four (4) teenagers consisting of family and Relatives This study wants to explore the phenomenon experienced by teenagers in riding motorcycles. Factors that are the cause of traffic accidents are behavioral factors, knowledge factors, road factors (facilities and infrastructure), and weather factors, where human factors become the highest factors as the cause of traffic accidents. Driving a two-wheeled vehicle needs to be supported by good driving knowledge, gar traffic order can be carried out so that road safety can be realized, in additi...

Risk Factors in Road Traffic Accident in the City of Palu, Indonesia

Public Health of Indonesia, 2017

Background: Traffic accidents are unpredictable events when they occurred. Thus, understanding the risk factors in road traffic injuries is needed.Objective: This study aims to analyze the risk factors in road traffic accidents in the city of Palu.Methods: This was an observational analytic study using case-control approach with sample of 182 respondents consisting of 91 cases and 91 controls. Purposive sampling was used based on a certain considerations made by the researchers themselves. Data were tested with Odds Ratio and analyzed by univariate and bivariate with a confidence level of 95%.Results: The results showed that the scatterbrained factor (OR = 3.180 95% CI 1.669 to 6.059), undisciplined behavior (OR = 11.990 at 95% CI 5.956 to 24.138), exceeding speed limit (OR = 4.230 95% CI 2.204 to 8.118 ), and no driving license (OR = 10.455 at 95% CI 5.274 to 20.722).Conclusion: This study concludes that the scatterbrained factor, undisciplined behavior, exceeding the speed limit, ...

Study of Young Motorcyclists’ Risk Behaviours Towards Road Accidents in Kuantan

International Journal of Humanities Technology and Civilization

In Malaysia, the number of motorcycle-related traffic accidents has gradually climbed over time. Road traffic accidents are typically caused by a combination of individuals and environmental circumstances.Young motorcyclists had significantly over-represented number of deaths in motorcycle road accidents. Many aspects, such as inexperience, lack of riding competence, and risky riding behaviour, have been linked to road traffic crashes among young adults aged 16 to 19 years old. However, less study has been conducted to analyze these young motorcyclists (high school students) riding behaviour. Therefore, this review aims to identify secondary school student’s risk behaviours for road traffic accidents among motorcyclists in Kuantan with young motorcyclists being the main contributor to the road accidents. Most of the youngster use motorcycles as their daily mode of transportation. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional study design and a simple random sampling method. It was cond...

Road Traffic Accidents and Injuries Among Form 6 Students in Muar

Introduction: Road traffic accident refers mainly to any accident involving at least one road vehicle, occurring on a road open to public circulation, and in which at least one person is injured or killed. Road traffic accidents are a recognized dominant cause of injury and death among teenagers worldwide and in Malaysia. Road traffic accidents and injuries is a public health problem worldwide. In 2002, there are 1.2 million people die as a result of road traffic accidents and 50 million are injured and disabled. It is also the 11 th cause of death in the world and accounts for 2.1% of all deaths globally. Methods: This is a descriptive cross sectional study that targeted form six students as our population in 6 different higher secondary schools in Muar with 280 respondents. Data was collected through a 12 items of multiple structured questions and 5 items of feedback questions, which of overall 17 items of questions in our questionnaire Results: Among 280 respondents, 84.6% of them had met with an accident. Majority of the respondents are male (90.7 %), Malay (89.9 %), and come from a low income background (97%). Surprisingly, there are 66 (90.4%) have not attended a driving lessons while 82 (94.3%) of them did not have a driving license. Among the entire respondent surveyed, 76 (96.2 %) of them did not wear seatbelts or helmets. The remaining 43 which is 15.4% of them had not met with an accident. There is a significant association between motor vehicles accidents towards driving lessons (P=0.001), driving license (P=0.001), usage of seatbelts or helmets (P=0.001) Conclusion: Our study shows that there was a significant association between road traffic accident and injuries with not having a driving license, not attending driving lessons and usage of seatbelts or helmets. Recommendation: Our government should implement strict rules and tough penalties such as increasing fines and summon as to curb traffic accidents. For the awareness, schools have a role to play by emphasizing the importance on road safety, like usage of seat belts, proper driving practice by organizing awareness campaigns and seminars which is given by road traffic officers. The media also needs to draw the attention of all road users both to dangers and to safe practices on the road.

Study of Psycho-Social Factors Affecting Traffic Accidents Among Young Boys in Tehran

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, 2015

Background: Unprecedented growth of fatalities due to traffic accidents in the recent years has raised great concerns and efforts of authorities in order to identify and control the causes of these accidents. Objectives: In the present study, the contribution of psychological, social, demographic, environmental and behavioral factors on traffic accidents was studied for young boys in Tehran, emphasizing the importance of psychosocial factors. Patients and Methods: The design of the present study was quantitative (correlational) in which a sample population including 253 boys from Tehran (Iran) with an age range of 18 to 24 who had been referred to insurance institutions, hospitals, correctional facilities as well as prisons, were selected using stratified cluster sampling during the year 2013.The subjects completed the following questionnaires: demographic, general health, lifestyle, Manchester Driving Behavior Questionnaire (MDBQ), young parenting, and NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). For data analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient, and inferential statistics including simultaneous regression, stepwise regression, and structural equations modeling were used. Results: The findings indicated that in the psychosocial model of driving behavior (including lapses, mistakes, and intentional violations) and accidents, psychological factors, depression (P < 0.02), personality trait of conscientiousness (P < 0.02), failure schema due to the parenting style of mother (P = 0.001), and perception of police commands (P < 0.002), played an important role in predicting driving behavior. Among social factors, perception of police regulations (P = 0.003), had an important effect on violations and mistakes. Among environmental and behavioral factors, major factors such as driving age (P = 0.001), drug and alcohol use (P = 0.001), having driver's license (P = 0.013), records of imprisonment or committing a crime (P = 0.012) were also able to predict occurrence of accidents. Conclusions: As the results of this study show, different factors contribute to different driving behaviors and accidents. The broad scope of these factors links accidents to other social issues and damages.

Analysis of traffic accidents of young drivers in urban areas and measures to increase safety

Put i saobraćaj

Traffic accidents are considered the first cause of death of young people, that is, young drivers. Therefore, this problem needs to be given a lot of attention. Traffic accident which include young drivers must be analyzed as an element of the system, and it is necessary to analyze and investigate potential solutions and improve all elements in order to improve the system itself. In the Republic of Croatia, for the first time in 2004, the term "YOUNG DRIVER" as a driver of a motor vehicle up to the age of 24, who holds a drivers license issued in the Republic of Croatia, was introduced into the Road Traffic Safety Act. The share of young drivers in the population in the Republic of Croatia is 4.3%. Young drivers make up about eight percent of road users, causing a total of 9.6% of traffic accidents, or 12.5% of those with fatalities. This paper will deal with traffic safety in other countries, especially in the surrounding countries. According to statistics related to road...

Factors Influencing Risky Driving Behavior in Young Motorcyclists at Bandung City, Indonesia

Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019), 2020

Risky driving behaviour is one of the causes of road accidents, especially in adolescents. This study is aimed to get factors causing risky driving in teenage drivers in the city of Bandung, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The method of this study is descriptive. The population of this study are motorcyclists who are classified as adolescents, have been ticketed for at least 6 months from the data was taken, and have lived in the city of Bandung, at least for 1 (one) year. The sampling technique used is random sampling. By using the instrument to measure intention of behaviour, we collected data from 135 respondents. The finding of this research those are among the three determinants of intention to drive in risk, attitude toward behaviour (ATB) is the most influencing factor for the behaviour. It was followed by Perceived Behavioural Control (PBC) factor that has influenced 22,1%, and interestingly the Subjective Norm (SN) only gave 4,8% as an influencing factor to the risky driving behaviour. By believing that behaviour will have positive consequences, the attitude towards risky driving behaviour becomes positive. The limitations of the study are discussed.

Safety Riding Behavior among Students in Bekasi, Indonesia

IJSES, 2021

The purpose of the research is to determine and analyze the safety riding behavior among students of two Public Senior High Schools (SMAN), which are SMAN 6 and SMAN 8 in Bekasi, Indonesia. The reason why the research was conducted was that the high number of road traffic accidents in Bekasi. Another problem was unsafe riding behaviors committed by students while riding a bike. Human errors had to be the dominant factor leading to road traffic accidents since people were lack of awareness about safe riding behaviors. The research was conducted at SMAN 6 and SMAN 8 Bekasi, using a quantitative approach and employing factor analysis with 179 students as a sample. The data was collected by distributing statement letters with a tested Likert Scale model. The result shows that there is a correlation between students' awareness and safety riding behavior; there is a correlation between students' attitude and safety riding behavior; there is a correlation between students' perception between safety riding behavior; there is a correlation between the role of students' peers and safety riding behavior, and there is no correlation between participating on training and safety riding behavior.