| dc.description.abstract | According to WHO in the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2023, in 2021 the
majority of traffic accidents in Southeast Asia involved motorcycles with a
percentage of 48% with the number of traffic accidents occurring in Southeast Asia
amounting to 330,222. In Medan City during 2019-2023, there were 8,145 traffic
accidents, which were dominated by motorcycle traffic accidents totaling 5,674
incidents. The purpose of this research is to describe rider factors, environmental
factors and vehicle factors as factors causing motorcycle traffic accidents and
analyze trends in factors causing traffic accidents in Medan City in 2019-2023. This
research uses descriptive research methods to describe the factors that cause
motorcycle traffic accidents. The result of this study is that motorcycle accidents
are dominated by human factors (93.8%), environment (5.8%) and vehicles
(0.44%). Human factors are dominated by aggressive driving factors, where the
majority of perpetrators are aged 16-25 years (34.7%) of the total age group and
the majority of perpetrators work as private employees. environmental factors by
bad road conditions and vehicle factors by brake factors. In conclusion, human
factors dominate the causes of motorcycle traffic accidents in Medan City in 2019-
2023 and it is suggested to SATLANTAS to conduct counseling to schools and
campuses to educate students and high school students in motorcycle safety,
counseling and education are also needed to the community, especially to private
employees who are the majority of motorcycle accident perpetrators, further
patrols on motorcycle drivers are carried out at 06.00 - 12.00 with locations on city
roads which are times and places where traffic accidents often occur | en_US |
