Poor driver behavior and weak enforcement of traffic regulations are believed to be the main contributory factors to causes of road accidents in the State of Kuwait. This research project was undertaken to a) quantify the extent of driver non-compliance with traffic regulations, and b) to examine the likely influence of driver use of mobiles and belt use on traffic violations. The violation behavior of a sample of 1000 drivers was observed and recorded during random daily trips. In addition, to the number of violations, driver age - range, gender, apparent nationality, mobile use, belt use, trip distance and trip time were also recorded during the driving follow-up. Findings pointed to a high frequency of traffic violations by all drivers. Younger drivers, and Kuwaitis, violated the regulations of traffic more (with statistical significance) than their older drivers, and the non-Kuwaiti nationals, as was expected. No statistically significant difference in the mean number of violations however, was found to exist between the sample male and female drivers (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E217780.
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