Banca de DEFESA: EMILLY LINDOLFO DE SOUZA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : EMILLY LINDOLFO DE SOUZA
DATE: 22/08/2022
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Videoconferência via Gerência de Redes do CCET/UFRN
TITLE:

Traffic accidents and alcohol consumption while driving on federal highways in the State of Rio Grande do Norte: 2007 to 2019

KEY WORDS:

Road traffic accidents; Deaths from external causes; Drinking and Driving Law; Federal Highway Police; Spatial analysis; Rio Grande do Norte

PAGES: 124
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Demografia
SUMMARY:

The main objective of the present study was to identify trends in the occurrence of traffic accidents with fatal and non-fatal victims caused by the use of alcohol while driving on federal highways in the State of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), from 2007 to 2019. This study is justified due to the importance of demographic studies that comprises a period of important changes in Brazilian traffic legislation, such as the tightening of traffic laws to curb the consumption of alcohol while driving, such as the implementation of the Drinking and Driving Law. The RN is a provocative investigative cut because it is located in one of the three Brazilian regions that have the highest traffic mortality rates. In this study, two hypotheses were tested: 1) in the period from 2007 to 2019 there were no substantial differences between traffic accidents due to alcohol use with fatalities and without fatalities in the State of Rio Grande do Norte; 2) the formation of clusters in the period from 2007 to 2019 occurred due to the centralization of the occurrence of traffic accidents with fatal and non-fatal victims motivated by the consumption of alcoholic beverages in the Metropolitan Region of Natal (RMN). In order to reach the proposed objectives, information from the Federal Highway Police (PRF) was used. This source provides information on accidents at two levels: occurrence and person involved in the accident, and both were used in this study. A database of 2,143 occurrences of traffic accidents motivated by alcohol consumption recorded on federal highways in RN was used, and from the database of people, 4,735 records of those involved in accidents that also had the main cause of alcohol use were analyzed. of alcohol when driving on federal highways in RN. Descriptive analysis was used to test the first hypothesis, and to test the second hypothesis, univariate spatial analysis was used through the application of the Global Moran Index and the Local Moran Index (LISA). In this analysis, the software used were Qgis (version 3.16.3) and Geoda (version 1.18). Among the main results, we found the following profile of fatal victims in accidents whose main cause was the ingestion of alcohol and which partially confirm hypothesis 1: predominantly male (N=309; 78.4%), from the age group of 18 to 29 years old (N=110; 31.2%), of the driver type (N=236; 56.3%) and in stretches of federal highways located in the interior of RN (N=95; 67.4%). Regarding the spatial analysis, despite the low value found for the Local Moran Index for accidents with fatalities or not, the formation of clusters was verified through the Local Moran Index, and in addition to the NMR, rejecting the hypothesis 2. In general, the results found indicate that the prevention and reduction of traffic accidents analyzed depend on public policies operating throughout the territory, and not just in the capital and its surroundings.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ANA MARIA NOGALES VASCONCELOS - UnB
Externa à Instituição - ELAINE LEANDRO MACHADO - UFMG
Interna - 1362181 - ISMENIA BLAVATSKY DE MAGALHÃES
Presidente - 2081758 - LUCIANA CONCEICAO DE LIMA