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Climate change affects the occurrence of heat waves in Korea. Heat wave gives significant impacts not only to human health, but also adversely affects on traffic accidents both directly and indirectly. This study analyzed heat wave impacts on traffic accidents in summer time (JJA) from 2012 to 2017 timely. To consider some occupations work in earlier or later than regular working hour, 04~20h is set for this study. Generalized additive model is used to analyze the relation between the temperature and traffic accidents. The results showed that the traffic accidents in high temperature increases in 04~08h, 08~12h, and especially 18~20h. The percent difference for relative risk of traffic accidents is 2.34% (95% confidence interval: 1.140, 3.269) when the temperature increase by 1°C in 18~20h. The results of this study suggest some requirements for measures to prevent traffic accidents in the morning and evening hours with increasing temperatures.
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traffic accidents, relative risk, temperature, heat wave
