Oorsake van padongelukke met verwysing na die R44 tussen Somerset-Wes en Klapmuts

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:South Africa, and other developing countries, experience great problemsconcerning road traffic accidents. Despite road safety campaigns like ArriveAlive being launched, accident rates do not decline significantly and the problemis predicted to get worse. This study is done on a road in the Western Cape, theR44, to investigate the causes of road accidents. The causes of the accidentsare deduced from the accident reports and relationships are sought with otherfactors. The results of this study are risk factors (human-, environment- andvehicle factors) for the 14 accident types that occurred on the R44, as well asmeasures to prevent road accidents. It has been found that the human factorplays the biggest role in road accidents. Out of the 404 accidents analysed,77.7% were caused by human factors, 8.7% by unknown factors, 7.2% byenvironmental factors and 6.4% by vehicle factors. The problems experiencedwith the data quality are reported and recommendations concerning it are made.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University