According to World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 1.3 million people die worldwide every year as a result of RTA this is one person killed every 25 second, while 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries with many sustaining disability this sums to be the 6th leading cause of death overall and prime cause of death among young people aged 15-29 year and cost countries 1-3% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), affecting them economically as well. 1-3 In India years 18-45 accounted for more than half (61.2%) of all persons killed in accidents during 2014. 4 In 2014, total number of RTA cases reported in India being 4,50,898 has increased by 1.8% compared to 2013 with 4,43,001 cases while the deaths have a much concerning increase during 2014 with 1,41,526 deaths by 2.9% compared with 2013 with 1,37,423 deaths. 4 The rate being significant at 51 cases per hour where in 16 persons were killed. The state of Karnataka alone has an ABSTRACT Background: Over the past years, several efforts are made to establish relationship between personality characteristics and accident proneness with many researchers pursuing to construct accident proneness with personality. Current trend with exponential growth in automobile population has demanded Researchers to study about accident proneness among those drivers. With this background the following study was done with an objective of to explore the personality correlates of accident-proneness of truck drivers passing by State highway-17 of Mandya city in Indian. Methods: A cross sectional descriptive study was done in SH 17 Bangalore-Mysore highway among 200 truck drivers. The subjects included in the study were the truck drivers who were passing by SH-17 and who were able to understand Kannada or Hindi language. The data was collected by personal interview method by using semistructured questionnaire for socio-demographic information and standard big five personality test questionnaire for personality trait of drivers. Results: Out of 200 drivers 126 were accident prone and 74 were non accident prone drivers. Total driving hours in a day was found to be significantly higher in accident prone driver than non-accident prone. With respect to personality it was found that openness to experience and emotional instability/neuroticism was significantly associated with accident proneness. Conclusions: In conclusion it can be said that personality trait plays an important role in accident. In order to prevent such accident it is advisable to screen such people at the time of issue of driving license for heavy vehicle itself.
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