Potentially Critical Driving Situations During "Blue-light" Driving: A Video Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Driving with warning lights and sirens is highly demanding for ambulance drivers, and the crash risk is much higher than that during normal driving. In this study our goals were to establish a coding protocol to observe how often and how long potentially critical driving situations (PCDS) occur during "blue-light" driving (driving with emergency response lights) and to describe traffic and environmental conditions preceding and accompanying the PCDS.

Methods

We collected randomly drawn video data of real ambulance driving between 2014-2017 in two German federal states. A coding protocol was developed to categorize PCDS into four types ("right of way," "crosswalks," "overtaking" [passing], and "other") and to describe them within the context of road characteristi

SUBMITTER: Prohn MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10047724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature