The presence of road safety campaign and the determinants of road traffic accident occurrence in Malaysia / Syarifah Syahrul Naqibah Wan Haibie

Determinants of road traffic accidents have become a major public health concern worldwide. However, unlike developed or high-income countries, many developing countries have made very little progress towards addressing this problem. Nonetheless, there are ways to strengthen the reduction of injured persons that will help to lower the toll from road traffic accidents. The purpose of this paper was to clarify ways to accomplish these goals in the context of Malaysia. The result of the multiple regression analysis was 0.99" This implies that the proportion of variation in the dependent variable of the road traffic accidents explained by the independent variables of the population, registered vehicles and road length was 99%. The F-ratio of 884.763 was higher than the table value of 2.69 at 0.05 level of confidence. This shows that road traffic accidents significantly increase with increased of gross domestic product per capita, increased of registered vehicles, decreased of road length and increased of road safety presence. Based on the findings recommendations were proffered on how to reduce the phenomenon of traffic accidents in Malaysia.