Citation

Dewanti M. Proc. Road Saf. Four Continents Conf. 2007; 14: 12p.

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(Copyright © 2007, Conference Sponsor)

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Abstract

Motorcycles are one of transport means that indicate high growth compare to others and too risky. The number of motorcycle in Yogyakarta is the first rank (83, 5 per cent) of total vehicles. Motorcycle accident shows great traffic safety problem (73 per cent) which involve young motorcyclist of 16 to 25 years old, especially as students (high school and university) of 50, 4 per cent. Based on those phenomena, this research was carried out with an objective of finding factors that impact on the high accident rate of young motorcyclist and formulating efforts in promoting their safety. This research required data of characteristics of motorcyclist, behavior, accident involvement and the primary cause of accident. Correlation between the accident number faced by motorcyclist and motorcyclist characteristics or behavior is analyzed by Regression Analysis. Furthermore, efforts on promoting young motorcyclist safety are identified by considering available sources and existing constraints. Dominant accident characteristics experienced by respondents are once accident experience in last 5 years period (40,67 per cent), 80,3 per cent external injured, 76,9 per cent on going medical treatment , 55, 4 per cent accident involvement with moving vehicles, 40 per cent accidents occurred in good weather. Based on 2004 secondary data, some characteristics of dominant accidents are 73, 01 per cent motorcycles involvement, 50, 4 per cent young motorcyclist (16 to 25 years old) and 87, 6 per cent of male involvement, 48, 76 per cent is high school students. The result of Regression analysis is Y = 6,87209 - 0,04778 x1 - 0,06115 x2, which Y is total score of last 5 years accident experience, x1 is total score of motorcyclist's emotional characters, such as aggressiveness and emotion, then x2 is total score of motorcyclist behavior, such as discipline manner and politeness. According to the accident characteristics and the regression equation, it is necessary to observe some effort in promoting young motorcyclist safety in rural road that covers aspect of agressivity reduction and the raise of traffic discipline. Several recommended actions are: campaign of wearing helmet and traffic discipline four the young by involving the role of local organizations, such as: Family Prosperity Building, Youth Organization 'Karang Taruna', Student Organization of Inter School, etc, training of motorcycle riding safety in collaboration with automotive company, proposing attractive activities to attract people on good manner of using road.