TY - CONF A1 - Weinberger, Martin A1 - Tomasch, Ernst A1 - Hoschopf, Heinz A1 - Steffan, Hermann A1 - Spitzer, Peter A1 - Kleewein, Franz T1 - Causation of traffic accidents with children from the perspective of all involved participants N2 - In the year 2014 about 2,800 children between zero and 14 years got injured due to traffic accidents in Austria. More than 50% were taking part in traffic as active road users like cyclists or pedestrians. Within this study 46 real world traffic accidents between vehicles and children as pedestrians were analysed. In 39 cases, car drivers hit the crossing children. In the other cases, the collision opponents were busses, trucks or motorcycles. Most of the children got hit while crossing a road at urban sites. By analysing the traffic accidents from the perspectives of all involved participants, vehicle drivers and injured children, it is possible to identify factors for each participant, which led to the accident and factors that contributed the accident. The main task is to find patterns in the behaviour of crash victims (children and driver) before the collision. One important fact is that in more than 50% of the analysed cases sight obstructions were an important contributing factor for both, the driver and the child. From drivers view situations in which the child moved unexpected into the driven road lane were often found. For the injured child, factors like: no attention to the road traffic or no sufficient traffic observation were found to be relevant. Further it- possible to sensitise children and adults to possible source of critical traffic situations according to the findings of this study. KW - Analyse (math) KW - Deutschland KW - Fahrbahnüberquerung KW - Fahrzeug KW - Kind KW - Konferenz KW - Menschlicher Faktor KW - Österreich KW - Sichtbarkeit KW - Unfall KW - Unfallrekonstruktion KW - Untersuchung am Unfallort KW - Ursache KW - Zusammenstoß KW - Accident KW - Accident reconstruction KW - Analysis (math) KW - Austria KW - Cause KW - Child KW - Collision KW - Conference KW - Crossing the road KW - Germany KW - Human factor KW - On the spot accident investigation KW - Vehicle KW - Visibility Y1 - 2017 UR - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1824 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-18245 N1 - Außerdem beteiligt: Große Schützen Kleine (Österreichisches Komitee zur Unfallverhütung im Kindesalter), Universitätklinik Graz; ÖAMTC Fahrtechnik GmbH, Lang ER -