Improving Traffic Safety Through A Community Participation Approach

Abstract

The rapid growth of transportation has become essential to mobility in modern times. Increased activity will go hand in hand with increased movement of people and goods. This will have an impact on increasing the potential for transportation accidents, especially road traffic and transportation accidents. Based on data from the Indonesian National Police, by 2022, around 1.35 million people will die due to road traffic accidents, or more than 3,712 people per day. Lack of knowledge about traffic safety is the main problem in this community service. This community service was held in collaboration with the Grobogan Regency Transportation Office. The method used in this activity is by using lectures, questions and answers, giving case examples and practicing emergency response in the event of an accident. Based on the results of the activity, there was an increase in the value of knowledge and understanding of traffic safety by 30%. This shows that the material provided during the implementation can be accepted and applied by the participants.