Pinzke Stefan, Nilsson Kerstin, Lundqvist Peter
Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.
Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Work. 2014;49(1):39-49. doi: 10.3233/WOR-131767.
Agriculture consistently ranks as one of the highest risk industries in North America and Europe. In addition to vehicle injuries and other injuries that occur on farms, farm vehicle drivers are also involved in collisions involving tractors and other slow-moving vehicles (SMVs) on public roads. These collisions often lead to injuries among farmers, family members, farm workers, and other road users.
To conduct a demographic analysis of road traffic incidents involving tractors in Sweden during the time period 1992-2009, with special consideration of how incidents vary with driver age.
Statistics from 2,305 police reports describing tractor-related road traffic incidents in Sweden in 1992-2009 were analysed with respect to driver age, type of incident, severity of injury, type of road user and other circumstances at the accident site.
Tractors of all kinds were involved in 128 road traffic incidents annually, with 7 people killed, 44 seriously injured and 143 suffering minor injuries each year. The annual number of fatalities represented 1.2% of all Swedish road fatalities. Most road traffic incidents with farm tractors involved people aged 25-55 years (mean 45 years). However, most farm tractor drivers killed or injured belonged to younger or older age groups. Drivers aged 12-16 years were over-represented in tractor incidents with no other vehicle involved. Older tractor drivers (> 55 years) were more often involved in incidents with passenger vehicles on entering traffic flows. The youngest tractor drivers aged 12-16 years were more often involved in road traffic incidents during school holidays, and both youngest and oldest drivers (>65 years) during harvest time.
Sweden has an ageing fleet of tractors, so increased attention to vehicle maintenance is needed to improve road safety. The over-representation of young children in tractor incidents suggests that it is questionable whether they should be allowed to operate farm vehicles. Farm vehicle drivers suffering the inevitable effects of ageing need increase their awareness of added risks. As road traffic incidents with tractors often involve private vehicles, creating awareness among the public of slow-moving farm vehicles is essential for improving overall road safety.
在北美和欧洲，农业一直是风险最高的行业之一。除了农场发生的车辆伤害和其他伤害外，农用车辆驾驶员还会在公共道路上卷入涉及拖拉机和其他慢速行驶车辆（SMV）的碰撞事故。这些碰撞事故常常导致农民、家庭成员、农场工人和其他道路使用者受伤。
对1992年至2009年期间瑞典发生的涉及拖拉机的道路交通事故进行人口统计学分析，特别考虑事故如何随驾驶员年龄变化。
分析了2305份警方报告中的统计数据，这些报告描述了1992年至2009年瑞典与拖拉机相关的道路交通事故，涉及驾驶员年龄、事故类型、伤害严重程度、道路使用者类型以及事故现场的其他情况。
各类拖拉机每年卷入128起道路交通事故，每年有7人死亡、44人受重伤、143人受轻伤。每年的死亡人数占瑞典所有道路死亡人数的1.2%。大多数涉及农用拖拉机的道路交通事故涉及年龄在25至55岁之间（平均45岁）的人。然而，大多数死亡或受伤的农用拖拉机驾驶员属于较年轻或较年长的年龄组。在没有其他车辆参与的拖拉机事故中，12至16岁的驾驶员比例过高。年龄较大的拖拉机驾驶员（>55岁）在进入交通流时更常卷入与乘用车的事故。年龄最小的12至16岁拖拉机驾驶员在学校假期更常卷入道路交通事故，而年龄最小和最大的驾驶员（>65岁）在收获季节更常卷入事故。
瑞典的拖拉机车队正在老化，因此需要更加关注车辆维护以提高道路安全。幼儿在拖拉机事故中比例过高表明是否应允许他们操作农用车辆值得怀疑。受衰老不可避免影响的农用车辆驾驶员需要提高对附加风险的认识。由于涉及拖拉机的道路交通事故常常涉及私家车，提高公众对慢速行驶农用车辆的认识对于改善整体道路安全至关重要。
