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Title:

Fatal and Serious Road Crashes Involving Young Drivers in New Zealand: A Latent Class Clustering Approach

Accession Number:

01519716

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The over-representation of young drivers in road crashes and injuries is a major ongoing concern world-wide. This study offers a classification analysis of young-drivers’ serious and fatal crashes as a decision-aid for designing youth targeted road safety programs. Latent class analysis was applied to police records of serious and fatal crashes involving 15-24 year-old drivers in New Zealand to provide a comprehensive and multi-dimensional overview of crash patterns. The analysis yielded 15 and 8 latent classes of single- and multi-vehicle crashes and raised three major safety concerns for young drivers: (i) risky road behavior involving reckless driving and traffic law violations; (ii) inattention, error, and hazard perception problems; (iii) interaction with difficult road geometry and lighting conditions, especially on open roads and state highways with a 90 km/h or higher speed limit.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Operator Education and Regulation. Alternate title: Fatal and Serious Road Crashes Involving Young Drivers in New Zealand: Latent Class Clustering Approach

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-1604

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Weiss, Harold
Kaplan, Sigal
Prato, Carlo Giacomo

Pagination:

24p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Distracted drivers

Geographic Terms:

New Zealand

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1604

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:35PM