Three Strategies Reducing Accident Rates at Black Spots and Black Sites Road in Riau Province, Indonesia

This paper aimed to (i) identify black spots and black sites road within the east cross highway of Sumatra, Ujung Tanjung \x96 Bagan Batu, Indonesia, (ii) analyze its traffic accidents anatomy, and (iii) recommend appropriate strategy for reducing the accident rates within this road section. In the period of 2009-2011, it was identified that, the black spot area (1 km of the road length) within this highway was located at KM 36-37 road section. The black sites area (6 kms) was located at Balam Jaya to Balai Jaya. The numbers of traffic accident occurrences at the black site area were 36 events for 3 years period. The traffic accidents were caused by; human errors (66.67%), vehicle failures (11.11%) and, poor of the existing road technical conditions (22.22%). After implementing 3 strategies encompassing: (i) educating road user, (ii) improving safer road strategy, and (iii) improving road safety and technical specifications, the number of accident rates decreased by 50% in 2014.