THE DEVELOPING AND DRIVING OF PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT FOR SAFETY SUB-DISTRICTS TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN WANG CHIN DISTRICT, PHRAE PROVINCE

Abstract

This participatory action research (PAR) aims to 1) study the situation of road accidents in Wang Chin District, Phrae Province. 2) to study road accident factors and the risk of road accidents in the area of Wang Chin District, Phrae Province 3) To study guidelines for developing and driving of participatory management for safety sub-districts road accident in Wang Chin District, Phrae Province. In 7 sub-districts, 77 villages, 12,101 households. Two sample groups are purposive sampling that were divided to 352 of stakeholders and 400 aged 18 years of survey groups and over by self-answering questionnaires. Data were collected from 1 January 2021 to 30 September 2021. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitatively using content analysis.

The results showed that the highest number of males who answered the questionnaire were 273 (68.25%), the age range that answered the questionnaire the most was 18-60 years old, 365 (91.25%). The most of samples lived in Pa Sak Sub-district 67 (16.75%) the time when they use the road the most during rush hour (7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.) and 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.), 154 samples (38.50 percent) Most used Motorcycles, 262 people (65.50%), the frequency of using the route is 4-6 times per week, 205 times (51.25%), the speed of driving a car or motorcycle is lower 80 km/h, 235 people (58.75%) and unsuitable road conditions such as potholes were the most common accidents (=4.20, S.D.=0.45). The factors that had the highest impact on road accidents were environmental aspects (X̄ = 2.70), followed by vehicles (X̄ = 2.46), road (X̄ = 2.43) and road users. (X̄ = 2.42), respectively.

The community has a development approach by managing risk points, divided into 2 forms: the community taking action on problems that can be managed by the community itself, and forwarding information and coordinating relevant stake holder to take action.