Author(s):
1. Jelica Davidović, Saobraćajni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Serbia
2. Verica Dimitrijević, Serbia

Abstract:
Traffic accidents annually shut down around 1.35 million human lives around the world. Research has shown that the driver's fatigue has a major impact on the occurrence of traffic accidents. In the 1990s, the psychological aspect of fatigue was defined as the lack of energy to perform any activity, and the main causes of fatigue are: sleep deprivation, biological clock, work time, monotonous tasks, individual driver characteristics that include health status. At the cognitive level, research involves fatigue and drowsiness with reduced alertness, prolonged response time, poor memory, psychomotor coordination, and slower processing of information and decision making. The fatigue is gradually created before the "master of the driver" is sent, the body sends "alarms" indicating the problem. A modern man often ignores the significance of this alarm and continues to drive. As a result of driving under the influence of fatigue, there are traffic accidents, which are most often the result of serious injury and death. The aim of this paper is to define what are the signs that the body sends to the driver to warn him that he is tired and what is the sign after which the driver must stop driving.

Key words:
Road Safety, Fatigue, Indicators, Traffic Accidents,

Thematic field:
Road Safety Management

Date of abstract submission:
15.10.2019.

Conference:
VIII Međunarodna konferencija Bezbjednost saobraćaja u lokalnoj zajednici

Final paper