Caraterização dos acidentes de trânsito ocorridos na rodovia federal BR-163 no estado de Mato Grosso

Abstract

Traffic accidents have registered increasing statistics, bringing worries to government authorities, mainly due to public health expenses. In Mato Grosso, one of the highways that has a higher accident rate is BR-163, which is of utmost importance for the state because it is the main route for the flow of agricultural production. This work aimed to analyze and determine the factors that characterize traffic accidents on BR-163, a stretch of the state of Mato Grosso, in the period between 2017 and 2021. For this purpose, an analysis of data made available by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) for this highway in the state of Mato Grosso was carried out. As a result, it was observed that the number of accidents involving non-fatal victims is higher than that of fatal victims. Moreover, it was possible to verify that the main characteristics of accidents with fatal victims are: lack of attention to driving, frontal collision, increasing direction of the road, in broad daylight, with clear skies, and in simple and straight lane. Finally, for accidents without fatalities, the main characteristics are: inattention while driving, leaving the carriageway, in the direction of the increasing road, in broad daylight, with clear skies, and on a straight single lane.