Road accident is a global tragedy with ever-raising trend. In Malaysia, it represents a major public problem because of the high number of victims involved and also the seriousness of the consequences for the victim themselves and to their families as well. Accidents are generally classified as single vehicle accidents in which the vehicle is either colliding with fixed objects or with pedestrians or the vehicle may fall in a ditch and multiple vehicle accidents in which two or more than two vehicle can either collide head–on, or one vehicle may collide with the front vehicle at the back or may a have side-swipe type collision. The increase of road accident is closely linked with the rapid growth of population, economics development, industrialization and motorization encountered by the country. It continues to be a growing concern to all those who uses the roads.
Based on the Ops Sikap statistics, for year
There are many causes of accident on the road.
The factors that causes an accidents
Human factor (drivers, riders and pedestrian)
Attitude of feeling like disturbed, depressed, drive fast in a bad mood showed a significant tendency to road accidents. Like to drive fast because of the attitude factors such as time pressure to quickly arrive, late, rush, eager to pursue a destination and also showed significant office hours with traffic accidents. Driver want to drive fast because of the challenge and have fun attitude habit, fun, love to drive fast and like to take risks also showed significant real.
Road Conditions
For example, the structure of the road is not flat, smooth, maze, narrow, dark and did not cause the driver to see and predict any obstruction to be encountered during driving Climatic Factor
It is saying because of heavy rains limit visibility thereby affect the driving of the driver and the accident occurred
Vehicles factor
The vehicles are poorly maintained are also among the factors that contribute to road