Factors Associated with Human Error in Motorcycle Crashes Involving another Road User

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with human error in motorcycle injury crashes involving another road user in Victoria, Australia. A subset of 158 motorcycle injury cases involving another road user were sourced from a larger case-control study (Day et al., 2013). Primary and secondary contributing factors were assigned based on a crash investigation, which included a rider questionnaire-based interview. The primary attribution of human error (by either the case rider or other road user) was significantly associated with four secondary or other factors: rider age, traffic density, inappropriate rider speed, or a road design issue.

• Record URL:
  http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • Allen, T
  • Newstead, S
  • Symmons, M
  • Lenné, M
  • McClure, M
  • Hillard, P
  • Day, L
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2017, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• Publication Date: 2017-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 2p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 10-12 October, Perth, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crash analysis; Crash causes; Crashes; Driver performance; Drivers; Errors; Motorcycles; Motorcyclists; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users)
• Geographic Terms: Australia; Victoria
• ATRI Terms: Crash analysis; Crash cause; Driver performance; Motorcycle; Road user
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 1755: Road user
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661776
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2018 10:03AM