Abstract
During the last three years, traffic accidents in Mataram City- Lombok have increased significantly. Interestingly, most of the accidents were involved high school motorcyclist. This study aims to investigate the influence of age and gender of student motorcycle riders on traffic violations and accidents, which represents a city with moderate growth. The investigation was conducted using a questionnaire survey, in which the data were collected from 394 students covering eighteen high schools. The model developed consists of behavioral, violation and accident latent variables. Behavioral constructs are comprised of five observed variables, the violation constructs consist of three observed variables, and accident constructs have two observed variables. It was found that 51.53% from 87.5% of the student’s motorcycle riders did not have the proper riding license, whom has age under 17 years old and had been involved in traffic accidents. The study was indicated a significant relationship between student riding behavior to traffic violations, and between traffic violations to accidents. Gender and age show differences in the significance (chi-square) values between riding behaviors relationship to traffic violations and accidents too.
Highlights
The study was indicated a significant relationship between student riding behavior to traffic violations, and between traffic violations to accidents
Most traffic accidents are caused by the driver, so driver behavior has an obvious effect on accidents and traffic violations
A traffic violation can be defined as an intervening variable between driving behavior that caused a traffic accident [5,7]
Summary
Most traffic accidents are caused by the driver, so driver behavior has an obvious effect on accidents and traffic violations. A traffic violation can be defined as an intervening variable (mediation variable) between driving behavior that caused a traffic accident [5,7]. Violations and traffic accidents in Mataram City mainly involved high school motorcyclists. There is a strong need to study, how much influence driving behavior has on the traffic accidents of student’s motorcycle riders in Mataram City. During the last three years, the number of traffic accidents in Mataram City-Lombok have increased significantly. Based on data from the last three years, accidents involving drivers based on the age. The ages of 16-30 have increased from cases in 2015, to 311 cases in 2016 and 417 cases in 2017. This range of ages is different from the research conducted in England, where young male drivers (18–25) and older male
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