動物の飛び出しが原因で発生するヒヤリハットの発生状況

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Single-vehicle accidents are known to occur because of many factors such as internal (e.g., operation mistakes, drowsy driving, and looking away) and external ones (e.g., traffic flow). Dangerous situations wherein an animal dashes out in front of a running car, sometimes occur and are often reported as a cause of single-vehicle accidents. This study refers to this situation as the “near-miss incident with dashing-out animals” (NIDA). While many studies have been conducted on near-miss incidents, only a few of them have examined NIDA. Since the construction of near-miss incident database in 2005, more than 160,000 near-miss incident data sets and approximately 700 accidents documented by drive recorders have been registered. This report statistically analyzes factors such as traffic situation, driver reaction, and others based on 358 NIDA data sets from this database.