Abstract
Nowadays more than one million people become victim in an accident on the roads. Some efforts have already been done to reduce globally the number accident. This paper is to show the condition of some provincial roads as location study in province of Kalimantan Barat regarding with description, characteristic, and the causes of accident. The results indicate that the human error take part dominantly around of 65% accident number, meanwhile vehicle condition and road environment contribute less than 5 %. The provincial road is dominated by the two-lane two-way facility. The finding shows the frontal collision type around of 42 % on the accident number. Number of motor cycle dominate the type of vehicle on the road. It coincides with percentage of motor cycle significant involved at an accident around of 71%. The frontal collision at location of study is more than twice compared to national data. Ratio number of accidents to length of road is located on the road segment from Ketapang to Pesaguan around of 0.884 each kilometer
Highlights
Nowadays in the world, number of dead toll because of accident on the roads and/or highways is around 1.3 millions people and more than 25 millions of them became permanent disbility
There are four road segment as provincial road status chosen in this research which located on two regencies from 14 regencies in West Kalimantan province
The frontal collision takes a bigger portion on type of two lane two way
Summary
Number of dead toll because of accident on the roads and/or highways is around 1.3 millions people and more than 25 millions of them became permanent disbility. The accident would be predicted as the fifth death in the world till 2030. Loss because of accident will take around 2 percent of product domestic bruto [1]. Based on classsification of road status that there are three categories namely state, provincial, city/regency. This paper will investigate and discuss some provincial roads in two regencies of West Kalimantan province. The provincial roads was chosen with some reasons like the longest road compared to state road and city/regency road [2], mainly located in rural area, and it was an important link in contributing economic growth of region
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