NEW CONSIDERATION ON CAUSES OF ROAD ACCIDENTS
It's the precondition of control road traffic accidents to study the cause of them. At the present time there are still many limitation in the study both domestic and abroad, the main phenomena is to magnify the factitious effects while neglect the effects of road's conditions. This paper studied this problem in depth , and indicated that the road conditions-not the driver's errors are the main cause of traffic accidents. Based on the study conclusion, some suggestions to enhance the safety of road traffic on the programming and design of road are given.
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Corporate Authors:
Research Institute of Highway, China
Ministry of Communications, 48 Bei San Huan Zhong Lu
Bejing, China 100088 -
Authors:
- HONG-LIANG, YIN
- XIAO-HONG, WANG
- Publication Date: 2000-8
Language
- Chinese
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 60-63
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Serial:
- Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development
- Volume: 17
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport
- ISSN: 1002-0268
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash rates; Highway safety; Traffic crashes
- Uncontrolled Terms: Causes
- ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1612: Accident rate; 9003: Cause; 1665: Safety
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00809854
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Centre (CDV)
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: May 3 2001 12:00AM