Hubungan Karakteristik Remaja Dengan Kejadian Kecelakaan Lalu Lintas Pada Komunitas Motor Sulut King Community (Skc) Manado

: Traffic accidents are one of the public health problem that affects all sectors of life. Traffic accidents involving adolescents is relatively large. This happens because the majority of traffic offenders who tend to reckless street are adolescent and young persons. The purpose of this research to identify the relationship between the characteristics of adolescents with an incidence of traffic accidents in the motorcycle community SULUT King Community (SKC). The characteristics of adolescents are adolescents age, adolescents sex, education level, adolescents socioeconomic, time, and the rate of speed. The design of this research is the retrospective design. The research fulfiled was conducted on September 2014 in the motorcycle community Wanea Secretariat SULUT King Community (SKC) Manado with 45 sample. The result of this research were calculated using Chi-square test and the results showed that there was no relationship between adolescents age with an incidence of traffic accidents, p = 0.650. There is a relationship between adolescents sex with an incidence of traffic accidents, p = 0.016. There is no relationship between the education level with an incidence of traffic accidents, p = 1.000. There is a relationship between adolescents socioeconomic with an incidence of traffic accidents, p = 0.013. There is a relationship between time with an incidence of traffic accidents, p = 0.001. There is a relationship between the rate of speed with an incidence of traffic accidents, p = 0.000. The suggestion for adolescents be able to understand about traffic accidents, and whatever may be the cause of traffic accidents