Causes and Trends of Motorcycle Accidents
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Road safety has long been considered as one of
the social responsibilities to the Malaysian Government. In
the visibility of this responsibilities, multiple bodies concern
on road safety has been formed within the government
departments, private agencies, and voluntary organizations.
The current study was carried out to understand the recent
trend and statistics of road motorcycles in Kajang,
Malaysia. The statistics for road accidents and the related
casualties in Malaysia from 2005 to 2008 was obtained from
the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters. The statistics of
registered motor vehicles in Malaysia will be provided by
Road Transport Department of Malaysia. Data will be
analyzed using SPSS software. Descriptive and hypothesis
testing techniques were used to obtain the results based on
the stated objectives of the study. From the crash statistics,
it can be revealed that Kajang has a relatively higher
incidence of casualties (dead, seriously injured and lightly
injured). In addition, the results show that the young riders
of motorcycles among the age of 16 to 20 years from the
majority of those who die in motorcycles accidents.
Moreover, it is recognized that the considerable percentage
of the motorcyclists and the pillion riders did not wear
safety helmets when they were traveling on the roads
network. The Malaysian government has to organize many
motorcycle safety campaigns in the coming few years.
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