Driver-Related Risk Factors in Commercial Motorcycle (Okada) Crashes in Benin City, Nigeria

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pius Ehiawaguan Iribhogbe ◽  
Emeka Danielson Odai
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Young Males ◽  
The Road ◽  
Benin City ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Helmet Laws

AbstractIntroduction:There has been global concern regarding road traffic injuries. Motorcyclists constitute a high proportion of fatalities in road traffic crashes. Commercial motorcyclists (Okadas) constitute a unique group in this regard. The purpose of this study was to evaluate driver-related risk factors in Okada accidents in Benin City, Nigeria.Methods:This was a prospective study. Interviewers administered questionnaires that were used to assess Okada drivers during a two-month period (November–December 2006).Results:A total of 996 Okada drivers were interviewed, 995 males and one female. Their ages ranged from 16–80 years with a mean age of 36.4 ±2.4 years. In the majority of cases, the maximum educational level achieved was primary or secondary. The majority of Okada drivers (82.8%) took to the Okada business as a last resort. Driver's licenses for Okada operation were possessed by 73.5% of drivers, but only 27.2% had taken a road test before being given a license. No form of training on the use of Okadas was received by 45% of drivers before they commenced operations. Crash helmets were owned by 56.4%, but they did not use them on a regular basis. Inconvenience was the reason provided for poor compliance by 52.7% of drivers. Regular intake of alcohol was present in 39.8% of drivers.Conclusions:Okada drivers are mainly young males with a low level of education who are ill-prepared and ill-equipped for the road. This is a recipe for traffic crash-related injuries and fatal motorcycle crashes. There is an urgent need for job creation, better licensing procedures, road safety education, national legislation, and enforcement of crash helmet laws as well as alcohol breath tests for Okada drivers in Nigeria.

Driver-related risk factors of fatal road traffic crashes associated with alcohol or drug impairment

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Valen ◽  
Stig Tore Bogstrand ◽  
Vigdis Vindenes ◽  
Joachim Frost ◽  
Magnus Larsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Drug Impairment

Risk factors for road transport–related injury among pedestrians in rural Ghana: Implications for road safety education

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 880-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enoch Teye-Kwadjo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Rural Ghana ◽  
Road Design

Objectives: Injuries and mortality resulting from pedestrian road traffic crashes are a major public health problem in Ghana. This study investigated risk factors for road transport-related injury among pedestrians in rural Ghana. Design: Case study design using qualitative data. Method: In-depth interviews were conducted with pedestrians. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the responses. Results: Findings showed that participants considered road design, roadside trading, inconsiderate driving, pedestrian traffic behaviour, low pedestrian crash risk perception and parental negligence as important determinants of road transport-related injury among pedestrians in rural Ghana. Conclusion: These findings suggest that safe pedestrian road environments and health-enhancing traffic attitudes and behaviour may help reduce the pedestrian crash problem in rural Ghana.

scholarly journals Road traffic injury in Lebanon: A prospective study to assess injury characteristics and risk factors

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ghoubaira ◽  
Marwa Diab ◽  
Hasan Nassereldine ◽  
Hani Tamim ◽  
Samer Saadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Injury Characteristics ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
A Prospective Study

Pedestrian Safety and the Built Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Stoker ◽  
Andrea Garfinkel-Castro ◽  
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi ◽  
Wilson Odero ◽  
Martin N. Mwangi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Pedestrian Safety ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Injury

Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety, particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic crashes in 2010. The road is a built environments that should enhance safety and security for pedestrians, but this ideal is not always the case. This article presents an overview of the evidence on the risks that pedestrians face in the built environment. This article shows that design of the roadway and development of different land uses can either increase or reduce pedestrian road traffic injury. Planners need to design or modify the built environment to minimize risk for pedestrians.

A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON PERSON-RELATED RISK FACTORS FOR SPORTS INJURIES IN YOUNG ADULTS.

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S227
Author(s):  
W. V. Mechelen ◽  
J. Twisk ◽  
A. Molendijk ◽  
B. Blom ◽  
J. Snel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Sports Injuries ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
A Prospective Study

scholarly journals Prevalence of behavioural risk factors for road-traffic injuries among the Iranian population: findings from STEPs 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1187-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soraya Fathollahi ◽  
Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam ◽  
Nazila Rezaei ◽  
Ayyoob Jafari ◽  
Niloofar Peykari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Road Traffic Injuries ◽  
The Road ◽  
Human Risk ◽  
Behavioural Risk Factors ◽  
Risky Behaviours ◽  
Drunk Driver ◽  
Seatbelt Compliance

Abstract Background To achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 in Iran, we need to have a comprehensive understanding of the distribution of risky behaviours regarding road-traffic injuries at national and sub-national levels. Little is known about the road-use vulnerability patterns of road-traffic injuries in Iran. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of self-reported human risk factors in road-traffic injuries using the findings from a large-scale cross-sectional study based on the World Health Organization’s stepwise approach to surveillance of non-communicable diseases (STEPs). Methods A cross-sectional survey study in 2016 assessed the road-use pattern and prevalence of risky behaviours of people more than 18 years old. In this study, we planned to recruit 31 050 individuals as a representative sample at national and provincial levels. In practice, 30 541 individuals (3105 clusters) from urban and rural areas of Iran were selected. Basic socio-demographic data, major behavioural risk factors such as seatbelt and helmet non-compliance, drunk driving and occupant in a car with a drunk driver were assessed through baseline interviews gathered through an Android tablet-based questionnaire. Results The overall prevalence of seatbelt and helmet compliance was 75.2% (95% confidence interval: 74.7–75.7) and 13.9% (13.4–14.5), respectively, at the national level. The prevalence of risk-taking behaviours such as drink driving was 0.5% (0.4–0.6) and for being an occupant in a car with a drunk driver was 3.5% (3.2–3.8). At the provincial level, the highest age-standardized prevalence of seatbelt compliance (89.6%) was almost 1.5 times higher than the lowest provincial prevalence (58.5%). In 63% of provinces, the lowest prevalence of seatbelt compliance was observed among people aged 18–24 years old. Conclusions In Iran, existing disease-prevention and health-promotion programmes should be expanded to target vulnerable subgroups that have more prevalent human risk factors for road-traffic injuries. Further research is required to investigate the context-specific proximal human risk factors and vulnerability patterns in Iran.

scholarly journals Driving Anger, Aberrant Driving Behaviors, and Road Crash Risk: Testing of a Mediated Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingru Zhang ◽  
Alan H.S. Chan ◽  
Hongjun Xue ◽  
Xiaoyan Zhang ◽  
Da Tao
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Driving Anger ◽  
Driving Behaviors ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Road Crash

With the dramatic increase in motorization, road traffic crashes have become the leading cause of death in China. To reduce the losses associated with road safety problems, it is important to understand the risk factors contributing to the high crash rate among Chinese drivers. This study investigated how driving anger and aberrant driving behaviors are related to crash risk by proposing and testing one mediated model. In this model, the effects of driving anger on road crash risk were mediated by aberrant driving behaviors. However, unlike previous studies, instead of using the overall scale scores, the subscales of driving anger and aberrant driving behaviors were used to establish the mediated model in this study. To test the validity of this model, an Internet-based questionnaire, which included various measures of driving anger, aberrant driving, and road crash history, was completed by a sample of 1974 Chinese drivers. The results showed that the model fitted the data very well and aberrant driving behaviors fully mediated the effects of driving anger on road crash risk. Findings from the present study are useful for the development of countermeasures to reduce road traffic crashes in China.

scholarly journals Risk factors contributing to road traffic crashes in a fast developing country: the neglected health problem

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. A75-A75
Author(s):  
H. R. Burgut ◽  
A. Bener ◽  
H. Sidahmed ◽  
R. AlBuz ◽  
R. Sanya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes

scholarly journals Prevalence of road traffic injury and its associated factors at hospitals in Wolaita Zone

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Hailu Weldemariam ◽  
Tigabu Addisu Lendado
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
Trauma Victims ◽  
Associated Risk Factors

Abstract Background Road traffic injury is defined as fatal or non-fatal cases incurred as a result of road traffic crashes. It accounts for an estimated 1.2 million people death and as many as 50 million injury in each year worldwide. This study was aimed to determine prevalence and associated risk factors of road traffic injury.Objective To determine the prevalence and its associated risk factors of road traffic injury.Method Facility based cross-sectional study with sample size of 309 was used for conducting study in two selected hospitals in Wolaita Zone.Systematic sampling method was applied to select study subject based on inclusion criteria. Data was collected by questionnaires which was developed from reviewing different literatures and analysed by using SPSS version 20statistical software.Result Among the total of trauma victims who visited emergency department of hospitals, approximately half of victims (49.2%) were due to road traffic injury followed by falling injury 60 (19.4%) and burns 35 (11.3%). After adjusting for confounding in multivariate logistic regression analysis, sex and living places are independent factors of road traffic injury. Two of them are highly significantly associated with road traffic injury and being male and urban resident had thirteen times AOR 13.08 95% CI (6.15-27.85) and more than two times AOR 2.69 95%CI (1.55-4.64) increased odd of road traffic injury respectively.Conclusion Road traffic injury was leading injury types among trauma victims visiting emergency department of Hospitals. Therefore, strong road safety policy at local and country level is needed to reduce vulnerability of individuals and vehicle related injury.

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