Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2023, 25(4):F96-F107 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2023.075

Trends in Traffic Accidents of Firefighting Vehicles and Their Evaluation

Ladislav Jánošík ORCID...1, *, Izabela Šudrychová ORCID...1, Ivana Jánošíková ORCID...2, Marek Cochlar3, Martin Tomášek ORCID...4
1 Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2 Faculty of Economics, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
3 Regional Directorate, Fire Rescue Service of Moravian-Silesian Region, Ostrava, Czech Republic
4 Fire station Cheb, Fire Rescue Service of Karlovy Vary Region, Cheb, Czech Republic

The Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic is a security force whose primary task is to protect the lives and health of the population from fire and other emergency and critical situations. Members of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic need special firefighting appliances for performing these public services. The first-response firefighting vehicles are professionally denominated as firefighting vehicles. These vehicles are used to transport units of firefighters, fire extinguishers and a technical equipment to a scene of an intervention. Traffic accidents occur occasionally while an emergency drive. Traffic accidents always have a negative economic impact on a fire protection unit and can endanger its operational capacity in the short term. This paper summarizes results of a traffic accidents analysis of a major group of emergency firefighting vehicles - water tenders.

Keywords: Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, firefighting vehicles, traffic accident
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This paper was created within the projects of specific research “Verification of driving characteristics of water tender type vehicles“ (project registration number SP2021/58) and “Stress load of drivers“ (project registration number SP2022/49).

Conflicts of interest:

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: July 20, 2023; Accepted: October 5, 2023; Prepublished online: October 17, 2023; Published: October 24, 2023  Show citation

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Jánošík, L., Šudrychová, I., Jánošíková, I., Cochlar, M., & Tomášek, M. (2023). Trends in Traffic Accidents of Firefighting Vehicles and Their Evaluation. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 25(4), F96-107. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2023.075
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