An analysis of 121 Arriva bus depots in the UK examined crashes that occurred from December 2000 to June 2003. Criteria for inclusion in the study were drivers aged between 18 and 64 years, with 0-35 years service history with Arriva and details about the crash and culpability were complete. This left a total of 15100 incidents suitable for inclusion in the analysis.Incidents involving passengers within the bus were not included. Two measures of crash risk are calculated from crash frequency data. Firstly those solely responsible for a crash and secondly those partly responsible for a crash. Risk ratios declined after the first two years of bus driving. The first year of driving carried the greatest risk of being solely and partly responsible for a crash, with a marked decline in risk with time during the first year. Younger novice bus drivers had generally higher risk rations for the first few months of driving a bus compared with older novice bus drivers for both part and sole blame crashes. It is suggested that the training bus drivers receive may not adequately prepare them for the job of driving a bus. For the covering abstract see ITRD E157496
Samenvatting