Run-over accidents from the perspective of Legal Legistation and Social norms

Abstract

-This research is social reserach in sociology and  is  a scientific attempt, tosheed light on run-over accidents in order to  identify the most impotant main reason for their occurrence as well as to identify the role  Legal Legistation and Social norms in limiting and reducing them.

The research sample was random, consisting of (70) subjects, The researcher relied in his filed study in the questionnaire and observation as  two main tools in Collecting data  and in formation specific to the and research community.

The study in our research reached anumber of results , the most important of which are:-

1- The field study showed that run-over accidents area at occurin the research community area at arate of (91%) respondents from the total research sample.

2- The study confirmed that run-over. Accidents are caused by ex cessive speed, mobile  Phone use, neyligence  and Carelessness by citizens when crossing the rood ,week traffic Control, and ansuitable roods.

3- The study results showed that current treffic Legal penalities are insufficient to reduce run-over accidents.

4- The field study confirmad that social norms play positive role in reducing and limiting  run-over accidents .

5- The study concluded that social norms do not hinder the implementation and enforcement of the law in hit-and-run accident.