Young drivers and cellphone distraction: Pattern recognition from fatal crashes
More than 30% of cellphone-distracted fatal crashes occurred to drivers younger than 25-years-old in 2018, even though they constitute less than 12% of total licensed drivers in the U.S. Using joint correspondence analysis (JCA), this study analyzed six years (2014–2019) of cellphone-related fatal crashes involving young drivers based on the data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). This unsupervised learning algorithm can graphically display the co-occurrence of variable categories in a lower-dimensional space by effectively summarizing the knowledge of a complex crash dataset. The Boruta algorithm was applied to select the relevant features from the preliminary crash dataset. The empirical results of JCA manifest a few interesting fatal crash patterns. For example, young male drivers in light trucks were involved in deadly collisions while performing specific cellphone activities (other than talking and listening), cellphone-related fatal crashes occurred to young females with prior crash records, and so on. Apart from alcohol and drug involvement, this study identified young drivers’ additional risk-taking maneuvers while engaged in cellphone usage, including: disregarding traffic signs and signals, speeding, and unrestrained driving. The associations could guide the safety officials and policymakers in developing appropriate engineering, education, and enforcement strategies when dealing with cellphone-distracted young drivers.
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- © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC and The University of Tennessee 2022. Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
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Authors:
- Hossain, Md Mahmud
- Zhou, Huaguo
- Das, Subasish
- Sun, Xiaoduan
- Hossain, Ahmed
- Publication Date: 2023-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 239-264
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Serial:
- Journal of Transportation Safety & Security
- Volume: 15
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 1943-9962
- EISSN: 1943-9970
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/utss20#.U2qTJPldWCm
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash data; Distracted driving; Fatalities; Mobile telephones; Risk taking; Teenage drivers
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01879334
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 17 2023 9:01AM