Increased Risk of Accidents Due to Human Behavior

Abstract

The human factor is a cause of a big portion of the traffic accidents. The article presents an example of the traffic accident that was caused by a human factor. The increased social danger of the presented type of the accidents lies in the fact that one of the cars in the traffic accident was a car of the police whose crew was in a hurry to a police action. The police car could not continue the way to the police action because of the accident that was not necessary and was caused by irresponsibility of the other drivers. The possibilities of the ward off collision were analyzed. It was stated among other that in the case that the drivers of the civilian cars enabled the drive through the column of the cars the accident would not happen. The breaking of the traffic law and laws generally is becoming a serious problem in the traffic safety. The experience of the police drivers using the blue lights when going to the police actions is presented, too.