09 Factors affect the number of deaths from accidents : Case study of commercial trucks in Thailand.

Abstract

The study of factors affecting the number of deaths in cargo truck crash in Thailand aims
1) to better understand the mechanism of cargo truck crashes in Thailand and 2) to be the
guideline for specifying accident reductive measure. The 196 road carrier companies were a
sample. They were collected data in order to test the relationship among functional factors,
benefit factors, work safety factors, and the number of cargo truck crashes in Thailand. The
data were gathered from questionnaires and analyzed with Pearson Chi-Square test (χ2).
The study results indicated that the functional factors, especially volume of driver, driver
personality, the number of working hours per day, the number of working days per week,
and overtime, had the relationship to the number of deaths in cargo truck crash. Moreover,
the benefit factors, such as daily allowances, diligence fees, social insurance expenditure,
and tuition fees and the work safety factors, such as annual physical checkup, pre-placement
physical examination, vehicle speed control system, and work period also correlated with
the number of cargo truck crashes. The results, however, found some interesting facts that
employment status, wages, bonus, and alcohol test had no relationship to the number of
deaths in cargo truck crash.