Question

Brief explain five contributory factor to most accident in the world

Answer 1

1. drinking/drugs and driving - when your brain is impaired by alcohol and/or drugs, you should definitely not drive because it may lead to an accident
2. ignorance of road signs - you have to know what each of the road signs mean if you want to avoid an accident
3. lack of concentration - if you are constantly drawing your attention to something other than driving (like talking, being on your phone), it may also lead to accidents
4. weather - depending on weather conditions, accidents may also happen due to fog, snow, heavy rain, etc.
5. stress/anger - if you are experiencing strong emotions which distract you, this may also cause an accident

Answer 2

According to police officers, mobile phone use is under-reported in traffic accident records.

Drug and alcohol use may also be under-reported in road accident records.

Some factors contributing to accidents (e.g., inattention, dangerous driving) are not included in reporting procedures.

Police officer’s views about accident causation may influence their memory recall.

Motor vehicle collisions cause more than 1.2 million deaths worldwide and an even greater number of non-fatal injuries each year (World Health Organization, 2015), negatively affecting the health and wellbeing of injury survivors and their families (Donaldson et al., 2009). To improve road safety, insight is needed into preventable causes of road accidents. Police reports of road accidents are the main source of data used for informing research and policy on the causes of road accidents. Concerns have been raised by academics and road safety authorities over the reliability of police-reported contributing factor data (DfT, 2014a), but there has been little or no attempt to investigate this issue empirically. This article aims to contribute to filling this gap by investigating the main causes of road accidents reported in accident records and comparing them with expert views of police officers and lay views of the driving public.