RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Influence of seat-belt use on the severity of injury in traffic accidents
A1 Febres Eguiguren, Juan Diego
A1 García Herrero, Susana
A1 Herrera, Sixto
A1 Gutiérrez Llorente, José Manuel
A1 López García, José Ramón
A1 Mariscal Saldaña, Miguel Ángel
K1 Road traffic injuries
K1 Seat belt
K1 Bayesian networks
K1 Traffic accidents
K1 Human and conditioning factors
K1 Transporte
K1 Transportation
AB Background: About 1.35 million people died in traffic accidents around the world in 2018, make this type ofaccidents the 8th cause of death in the world. Particularly, in Spain, there were 204,596 traffic accidents during 2016and 2017, out of which 349,810 drivers were injured. The objective of this study was to understand to what extentseat belt non-use and human factors contribute to drivers injury severity.Methodology: The results are based on the information and 2016–17 data provided by the Spain national trafficdepartment “Dirección General de Tráfico” (DGT). The discretization model and Bayesian Networks were developedbased on important variables from the literature. These variables were classified as; human factor, demographicfactor, conditioning factor and seat belt use.Results: The results showed that failure to wear the seat belt by drivers are likely to increase the risk of fatal andsever injury significantly. Moreover, distraction and road type road can contribute to the accident severity.
PB Springer
SN 1867-0717
YR 2020
FD 2020-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5291
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5291
LA eng
NO This research is part of the project “Modelización mediante técnicas demachine learning de la influencia de las distracciones del conductor en laseguridad vial”, with the reference BU300P18 and supported by funds fromFEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional - Junta de Castilla y León).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 19-abr-2024