Re-instruction of drivers who have included in traffic accidents/violated traffic rules more than ones by web based distance education

The importance of traffic accidents for our country and for the world is an unavoidable fact today when human life and economical loss are considered. Education is an important factor to prevent traffic accidents as it is for every other issues. In this context, web based long distance education with many advantageous becomes a current topic in our age which can be used in the instruction of drivers. The aim of this study is re-education of drivers who have included in traffic accidents with their own mistakes. Especially, the determination of the drivers who have included in traffic accidents or violated traffic rules more than ones where the main reason of those accidents were the driver's mistake, by assessing the knowledge of the general traffic rules of these drivers and their mistakes in the accidents, removing those mistakes by web based long distance education are targeted. The education is going to be concentrated on the diversity and the frequency of the mistakes committed. In the case of repeating traffic rules violations, and due to the diversity of those violations, it would be possible to recommend the driver to take the general driving education once again. In the present study, we have applied the web based long distance education to 366 trainee by the web site www.e-surucu.com which has been constructed by object oriented programming technology. In the beginning of the education, the drivers who have included in an accident take an assessment test which is prepared with respect to the kind of the mistake committed by the driver. Then, the drivers are educated in the light of the assessment. At the end of the education, a second test is applied. We have observed in our study that while the rate of success in the first test was 16,46, after our web based long distance education module the rate of succes for the last test is increased to 30,02. The reason for nearly 50% difference between the rates is considered to be related to the education module itself.