A Relationship between Experiences of Traffic Incidents and Traffic Accidents of Senior Drivers with Questionnaire Survey

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to show that the quantitatively relationship between experiences of traffic incidents and traffic accidents and human characteristics of senior drivers, because there is a necessary to figure out characteristics of traffic incidents to promote safety measures of senior drivers and to show possibility of being able to use traffic incidents data to analyze traffic accidents. To show the relationship considered subjective traffic incidents that senior drivers actually perceived, this study uses the result of the questionnaire survey with senior drivers as a target. This paper describes two findings regarding senior drivers depending on the results of three analyses. The first one is that drivers who have no confidence of their driving ability have higher possibility of perceiving traffic incidents than others. The second is that drivers who have experience of perceiving traffic incident have higher possibility of causing traffic accidents than others. From the findings, this paper suggests traffic accidents data that senior drivers actually perceived may be able to use for evaluating traffic accidents.