Causes and Prevention Measures of Secondary Rear-End Accidents in the Rescue of Highway Traffic Accidents

With increasing number of highway traffic accidents, rescuers are challenged with increasing number of rescue missions, which make rescuers dangerous in the rescue work. In the process of rescue of the highway traffic accidents, secondary rear-end accidents specially lead to the casualties of rescuers and others. There are large number of rescuers who have hurt or even died in secondary rear-end accidents. It is obvious that there is excess tight connection between the cause of traffic accidents and secondary rear-end accidents. Through the research of the highway traffic accidents and their characteristics, we find out the causes of traffic accidents in this paper and then analyze the causes of secondary rear-end accidents in the emergency rescue of highway traffic accidents .By analyzing the causes, we also put forward the practical and effective preventive measures and the management measures at the site. The aim of this paper is to ensure the safety of rescuers, to regulate the program of dealing with the kind of traffic accidents for the traffic accident emergency rescue team and to make suggestions about emergency rescue of traffic accidents in the future. Meanwhile, we hope our suggestions can reduce secondary accidents and resulting life and property losses from the masses and rescuers effectively.