The driving behavior of car drivers in Rafsanjan city (2003)

The driving accidents are aligned in first rank of the involuntary accidents. 70-90 percents of driving accidents are due to driver's behavior that is related with demographic characteristics such as: age، sex، marriage condition، personality Type، academic grade، history of driving fines or accidents. This study assesses driving behavior and its relationship with demographic variables in urban drivers of Rafsanjan. In this cross sectional study 392 drivers over 18 years old، driving license holders، at least one year driving history، and resident of Rafsanjan city were selected by cluster random sampling. The subjects completed Questionnaire covering demographic characteristics and driving behavior. Data were analyzed by SPSS software and chi square test. 87. 5% of subjects were male. 79. 3% married، 44. 6% personality type of A، 65. 8% diploma and higher grades، The mean of age، marriage during، and driving during were 37. 1، 14. 7 and 14 years. 46. 4% of cases had driving fines in the last year and 63. 8% reported history of driving accident in the driving course. 60. 5% of samples had “cautionous” driving behavior and others had “semi-cautionous” or “violent” behavior. “semi-cautionous” or “violent” driving behaviors were seen in the male and young drivers، who their job was driving، who had Type A Personality، and who had history of fine or driving accident significantly (p<0. 05). Married samples and drivers with lower diploma grade had more “cautionous” driving behaviors but differences werent significant. Regard to about half of the subjects appropriated driving behavior of uncationus, such it applicants psychosocial actions to adjust of above behavior and we propose observational researches to confidence this results.