Statistical analysis of traffic accidents in gendarmerie zones of Turkey between 2000 and 2005

The human factor in traffic accidents holds the first place in the distribution of failure as the statistics about traffic accidents were analyzed. It is observed that traffic accidents are not only limited by injuries and deaths, but also causes some psychological illness of injured person and his/her relatives. Beside this, the loss caused by traffic accidents to country?s economy is very huge and amount should not be underestimated. In this study; all types of available informations about traffic accidents in Gendarmerie zones of Turkey between year 2000 and 2005 are collected from traffic Agency Department of General Department of Gendarmerie. SPSS statistical package computer program is used for the prosessing of the data. Regression and correlation analyses are used to find degree of the relations between all possible factors which effect the traffic accidents. Solutions for the decreasing of the traffic accidents which cause many dead and injured people are proposed. Keywords: The Gendarmerie region, traffic, traffic accidents, statistics.