Abstract
The exogenous characteristics of traffic participants, such as: alcoholism, fatigue and psychoactive substances, have a significant impact on a safe behaviour in traffic, especially the motor vehicle drivers. In that sense, they represent the factors that can directly influence the unsafe behaviour in traffic. The influence of the exogenous characteristics on a safe behaviour of traffic participants has been analysed on the basis of the statements in documents as well as the results of numerous empirical studies. For the purposes of this paper, there have been selected and analysed the statistical data on the influential factors of traffic accidents for the period from 2010 to 2019 in Republic of Serbia. After reviewing the statistical data, both a qualitative and quantitative content analyses were performed. In addition to the statistical method, there were also used the content analysis methods, empirical method, descriptive method, comparative methods, as well as deduction and induction methods, in order to analyse the trend and presence of these influential factors of traffic accidents in Republic of Serbia. The statistical data being processed in this paper, originated from the database of the Traffic Safety Agency of Republic of Serbia. The results of the research show the extent to which the exogenous characteristics affect a safe behaviour of traffic participants, as well as the severity of the consequences of traffic accidents. Observed individually, the listed characteristics have a different intensity of influence on a safe behaviour in traffic. In this regard, from the external characteristics of traffic delinquents, the most common is the drunk driving as an influential factor, which especially affects the severity of traffic accidents in Republic of Serbia.
Highlights
There is no single understanding in science about the common characteristics of traffic delinquents, despite the existence of numerous typologies
The influence of exogenous characteristics on the safe behaviour of traffic participants was analysed on the basis of statements in documents, results of empirical research and data on their presence as influential factors of traffic accidents in the Republic of Serbia
Presented results indicate undeniable influence of psychoactive substances on safe behaviour in traffic, as well as that there is a higher prevalence of registered exogenous characteristics as influential factors in traffic accidents compared to psychoactive substances as an influential factor in traffic accidents
Summary
There is no single understanding in science about the common characteristics of traffic delinquents, despite the existence of numerous typologies. In criminological research into the causes of traffic delinquency, it is especially important to determine the influential factors that cause behaviours that deviate from socially desirable ones. Exogenous characteristics (drunk driving, fatigue and psychoactive substances) have a significant impact on the safe behaviour of traffic participants. In that sense, they represent factors that can directly influence safe behaviour in traffic. The influence of exogenous characteristics on the safe behaviour of traffic participants was analysed on the basis of statements in documents, results of empirical research and data on their presence as influential factors of traffic accidents in the Republic of Serbia. It is especially important to point out that the data in the ten-year period from the beginning of the application of “new” legal provisions in the field of traffic safety, tightening of penal policy and introduction of a wider range of preventive measures to improve traffic safety are analysed
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