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Citation

Kim DH, Ramjan LM, Mak KK. Traffic Injury Prev. 2016; 17(1): 86-90.

Affiliation

Department of Economics , Dong-A University , Republic of Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15389588.2015.1033689

PMID

26043956

Abstract

AIMS: Traffic safety is a significant public health challenge and vehicle crashes account for the majority of injuries. This study aims to identify whether drivers' characteristics and past traffic violations may predict vehicle crashes in Korea.

METHODS: A total of 500,000 drivers were randomly selected from the 11.6 million driver records of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs in Korea. Records of traffic crashes were obtained from the archives of the Korea Insurance Development Institute. After matching the past violation history for the period 2004-2005, with the number of crashes in year 2006, a total of 488,139 observations were used for the analysis. Zero-inflated negative binomial model was used to determine the incident risk ratio (IRR) of vehicle crashes by past violations of individual drivers. The included covariates were driver's age, gender, district of living, vehicle choice, and driving experience.

RESULTS: Drivers violating: 1) a hit-and-run or drunk driving regulation at least once; and 2) a signal, central line, or speed regulation more than once, had a higher risk of a vehicle crash with respective IRR of 1.06 and 1.15. Furthermore, female gender, a younger age, fewer years of driving experience, and middle-sized vehicles were all significantly associated with a higher likelihood of vehicle crashes.

CONCLUSIONS: Drivers' demographic characteristics and past traffic violations could predict vehicle crashes in Korea. Greater resources should be assigned to the provision of traffic safety education programs for the high-risk driver groups.


Language: en

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