Risk factors for extremely serious road accidents: Results from national Road Accident Statistical Annual Report of China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past decades, extremely serious road accidents with a death toll over ten in each have become a severe public health problem in China. This study investigates risk factors contributing to extremely serious road accidents, which will be crucial for accident prevention.

Methods

Collecting data from The Road Accident Statistical Annual Report openly issued by China's Traffic Management Bureau of the Public Security Ministry for the time period 2004-2015, we used the monthly case number of extreme serious road accidents as the dependent variable. We then selected ten risk factors as primary independent variables: professional driver, driving under influence (alcohol or drug), fatigue, vehicle type, overload, brake problem, weather, road classification, terrain,

SUBMITTER: Liu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070265 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature