The highway system in Brazil has been subjected to a long term lack of maintenance program with significantly negative consequences on traffic safety. Due to the physical and operational conditions of the roads, the highway network has shown the highest number of fatal accidents in the entire world. Besides the losses of human lives, by every means not weighable, these accidents lead to critical damages on the production chain, with serious results on the economic balance itself. he main objective of this study is to quantify the labor costs of accidents, based on the educational level of each driver. In this analysis, only drivers are considered, therefore the losses are expected to be higher than what is here shown, because there also exist the costs related to passengers. (A)
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