Traffic Collision And the Factors Involved #4

• Some of the major factors that contribute in greater risk of auto collisions include vehicle design, road design, road environment, driver's own skill.
• Traffic collisions can be classified by these general types and these types include: head-on, road departure, rear-end, side collisions, and it can also occur due to rollovers
• Many different terms are commonly used to describe the vehicle collision such as: motor vehicle accidents (MVA), motor vehicle traffic collision (MVTC), road traffic accident or collision (RTA) (RTC) respectively and many more
• Worldwide it was estimated in 2004 that 1.2 million people were killed (2.2% of all deaths) and 50 million more were injured due to the motor vehicle collisions
• Human factors are one of the most important cause that could possibly contribute in the road collisions. Human factors are usually described as all the possible factors related to the driver and the other road users that may contribute in road collisions
• A French global insurance group known as AXA concluded in one of his surveys that Irish drivers are very safety-conscious relative to the other European drivers
• In the 1990's, Hans Monderman's studies of the driver behavior led him to the realization that traffic signs and regulations had a super affect on a driver's ability to interact safely with other road users around that person
• The U.S Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration's research in 1998 stated that most of the highway accidents are usually because of the motor vehicle's speed
• Driver impairment describes factors that prevent the driver from driving from it's normal speed level. These factors could include: alcohol, sleep deprivation (fatigue), drug use, old age or any kind of other distraction that takes away the driver's focus from driving
• History: World's first road accident occurred on 31 August 1869
• Economy: The global economic cost of MVC'S was estimated at $518 billilion per year in 2003 with $100 billion of that occuring in developing countries.
• Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision