Abstract
Chungnam is one of the regions with low levels of fatal traffic accidents indicators, which also affected the incidence of acute cardiac arrest stemming from non-illness causes. This study aims to scrutinize the determinants influencing fatalities and severe traffic accidents in Chungnam, pinpointing hazardous zones reflective of accident patterns. Traffic accident data from 2018 to 2022 in Chungnam were analyzed using the traffic accident analysis system (TAAS) provided by the Korea Road Traffic Authority. The analysis revealed that fatalities and severe traffic accidents in Chungnam were more prone to occur during nighttime, involving elderly individuals, with the offending vehicle typically being a truck and the victim’s vehicle often a two-wheeled vehicle or agricultural machinery. Furthermore, pedestrian casualties were frequently observed among the damaged drivers. Additionally, the characteristics of traffic accidents varied across different regions categorized under cluster 4, identified as hazardous areas. These findings are expected to be used as basic data for local governments' traffic accident prevention and management policies.
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