@article{Oluwole_Rohani_Abdul Rani_Abdul Kadir_James_2014, title={Driver Factors and Commercial Bus Traffic Accident}, volume={2}, url={https://www.ajouronline.com/index.php/AJET/article/view/1342}, abstractNote={<p>The main purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the driver factors (driving hazard, driver distraction and driving risk) and commercial bus accident. 150  bus drivers from a bus transport company in Malaysia were selected as a sample, survey questionnaire was used for data collection for a period of two months, majority of the drivers (52.7%) were in the age category of 36 to 44 years old, with 145(96.7%) having driving education with training and 5(3.3%) without education. 30(20%) of the respondent has more than 20years driving experience with 125(83.3%) drives 4 to 6 days per week while 97(64.7%) of the respondent prefers day journey. 73 (48.7%) never has accident while 77 (51.3%) have had accident once, twice, thrice and even more than four times. There were significant relationship between driving hazard, driver distraction  (r=0.619, p<0.01) and driving risk (r=0.579, p<0.01). Result from multiple regression analysis shows that 20.7% can be explaining by driving hazard, driving distraction and driving risk contributed to bus traffic accident with significant relationship between driving hazard, driving distraction (r=0.619, p<0.01) and driving risk (r=0.579, p<0.01). It was also recommended that commercial transport company needs to do a lot of hazard preventive measure among novice drivers by conducting training and risk perception seminar from time to time.</p><p> </p>}, number={3}, journal={Asian Journal of Engineering and Technology}, author={Oluwole, Arowolo Matthew and Rohani, Jafri Mohd and Abdul Rani, Mat Rebi bin and Abdul Kadir, Aini Zuhra and James, Adeyemi Ademola}, year={2014}, month={Jun.} }