抄録
According to Grime (1987), among several factors, the human error factor contributed 95 percent to traffic accidents, and denoted the sole factor that led approximately 65 percent to the accidents. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Status Report in 2013 revealed that among the road users' categories, motorcyclists noted the highest number of 36 percent that were most likely to cause a death during the traffic accident, especially in Indonesia. This paper therefore aimed to analyze the extent to which human behavior, as the major factor, has affected the traffic accident by considering the accident history that occurred over the last five years in Bandung based on gender and age categories. The motorcyclist driving behavior was examined based on DBQ's (Driver Behavior Questionnaire) theory, which represents three factors, namely, lapses, errors and violations. In addition, the study also conducted a statistical analysis through SEM's (Structural Equation Modeling) method in order to investigate the extent to which the cause of accident has been correlated with the riders' behavior on the road. The result of the study then showed that there are differences between male and female motorcyclists' accident in Bandung, whereby the male riders' accident due to lapses gained 0.232 of the positive correlation, while most of female riders who got accident due to violation noted 0.227 of the positive correlation.
