In-depth Crash Causation Analysis of Motorcyclist Crashes

Tereza Tmejová, Robert Zůvala, Kateřina Bucsuházy

2022

Abstract

Motorcyclists as vulnerable road users are likely to be seriously injured during crashes. Realizing the need for mitigating the serious consequences of motorcyclist crashes, this paper aims to investigate and identify the factors contributing to the crash occurrence. The in-depth data used for the purpose of this study allows the detailed analysis of contributory factors and the whole human functional failure chain leading to the crash as well as the crash mechanism. Not only the failure of motorcyclists leading to the crash was analysed, but also the failure of passenger vehicle drivers involved in a collision with a motorcyclist. To define the risk factors of motorcycle-vehicle crashes, the obtained results focused on the motorcycle-vehicle crashes were compared with the two passenger vehicle crashes. The most typical vehicle–motorcycle crash caused by vehicle driver failure is right of way violation. While motorcyclists frequently fail at the diagnosis level (especially incorrect evaluation of a road difficulty), vehicle drivers mostly fail at the detection level, especially in the intersections. Obtained data highlighted the necessity of the educational and preventive activities focused differently on the motorcyclist and vehicle drivers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tmejová T., Zůvala R. and Bucsuházy K. (2022). In-depth Crash Causation Analysis of Motorcyclist Crashes. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS, ISBN 978-989-758-573-9, pages 249-256. DOI: 10.5220/0011033800003191

in Bibtex Style

@conference{vehits22,
author={Tereza Tmejová and Robert Zůvala and Kateřina Bucsuházy},
title={In-depth Crash Causation Analysis of Motorcyclist Crashes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,},
year={2022},
pages={249-256},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011033800003191},
isbn={978-989-758-573-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,
TI - In-depth Crash Causation Analysis of Motorcyclist Crashes
SN - 978-989-758-573-9
AU - Tmejová T.
AU - Zůvala R.
AU - Bucsuházy K.
PY - 2022
SP - 249
EP - 256
DO - 10.5220/0011033800003191