Traffic Accidents Involving Motorcyclists— Statistical Analysis Based on Data from 2019
Traffic Accidents Involving Motorcyclists— Statistical Analysis Based on Data from 2019
Author(s): Paweł MusiałSubject(s): Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Akademia Policji w Szczytnie
Keywords: motorcycle accidents; emergency medical team; multi-organ trauma
Summary/Abstract: Traffic accidents are a very common cause of death or disability in people. They usually involve users of variousvehicles on the road or pedestrians. They are also among the main problems of public health in Poland. Accidents cause manyhuman tragedies every year. Every day, many people die on Polish roads for many different reasons. The motorcycle seasontends to change its time-frame from year to year, taking the form of a year-round. Recklessness, non-compliance with roadrules, excessive speed, bad weather conditions and mistakes made by car drivers cause many traffic accidents that involvemotorcyclists. They result in severe multi-organ trauma or instant death of the victims. Modern technologies designed to improvethe safety of motorcycles as well as the protections used in helmets and protective clothing are helpless in the face of trafficaccident mechanisms. The author analyzed the data obtained from the Police Headquarters Road Traffic Department, showingthe number of road incidents involving motorcyclists in 2019. The material shows the scale of accidents broken down into causes,number of road incidents in individual months and age of the perpetrators. The references to data from previous years show theproblem of accidents on Polish roads and the position of Poland in the European statistics as a country with a high percentageof fatalities in traffic accidents
Journal: Internal Security
- Issue Year: 13/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 267-283
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English