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has been found that the 'accident rate of delivery platform motorcycles' is 7 times higher than that of delivery motorcycles belonging to restaurants even with the same delivery job as

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. The difference is that one receives a fee for each delivery and the other receives a monthly salary, but this also affects accidents.



Correspondent Kim Jung-woo reported.



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driving at an intersection, it collides with a car moving straight ahead, and collides with a vehicle that crosses the center line and makes a U-turn.



Delivery app motorcyclists who have an accident while trying to overtake a vehicle.



An insurance company analyzed the accident rate over the last five years of all delivery motorcycle drivers covered by their insurance.



When we compared delivery platform motorcycles with delivery motorcycles owned by employers, the accident rate of delivery platform motorcycles was seven times higher.



The accident rate has increased significantly since 2017, but it peaked last year when delivery surged due to COVID-19.



It is analyzed that the remarkably high rate of accidents on delivery platform motorcycles even though they do the same delivery job is related to the type of work that receives a fee for each delivery case.



[Delivery platform article: We introduced the rating system this time, so if the arrival time is too late, if you give a 'bad' rating, the rider's rating score will decrease, and it seems that a lot of attention is paid to that part.]



Experts suggest that in order to improve this situation, delivery app companies need to take measures to protect drivers, such as adjusting the delivery speed by analyzing the driving environment of drivers with an AI system, and deducting points for dangerous driving such as violating laws.



[Hong Ki-hoon/Professor of Business Administration, Hongik University: Whether or not you speeded is considered to be the most common sense problem. Did you go to the navigation system or did you go correctly?]



Above all, it is pointed out that the more you drive in compliance, the less the number of deliveries and the need to fix the delivery platform environment in which income decreases.



(Video editing: Lee Hong-myeong, video courtesy: Samsung Traffic Safety and Culture Research Institute)