scholarly journals Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 and road traffic injury surveillance, Nigeria West Africa,2013–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Obafemi J. Babalola ◽  
Patrick Nguku ◽  
Merissa A. Yellman
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Female Ratio ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
The North ◽  
Traffic Injury

ObjectiveThis study aimed to describe RTC characteristics and trends in Nigeria and determine progress towards halving RTC-related deaths/injuries by 2020 [i.e., Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.6].IntroductionGlobally, road traffic crashes (RTCs) annually kill 1.3 million people and injure 20-50 million others. Nigeria accounts for an estimated 15% of RTC deaths in the WHO African Region.MethodsWe abstracted, cleaned, and analyzed RTC surveillance data routinely collected from crash scenes from 2013-2016. Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is the lead agency for RTC surveillance and regularly collates data from the 6 geopolitical zones (which contain the 36 Nigerian States and the Federal Capital Territory). We defined road traffic injury as a fatal or non-fatal injury incurred from collision on a public road involving ≥1 moving vehicle(s). We calculated descriptive statistics, frequencies, and proportions to describe RTC characteristics and trends.ResultsFrom 2013-2016, 283,949 persons were involved in 42,813 RTCs, resulting in 23,412 deaths and 127,264 injuries. Twenty-eight percent of RTCs involved ≥1 fatality. Ninety percent of persons involved in RTCs were ≥18 years old, with a male-female ratio of 3:1. The same proportion was also found for RTC deaths and for injuries. Despite containing only 15% of the country’s population, the North-Central geopolitical zone accounted for 37% of RTCs. The most common cause of RTCs was speed violations (26%). From 2013-2016, there were reductions of 30% for RTCs, 22% for number of fatalities, and 25% for number of injuries.ConclusionsNigeria reduced RTC deaths/injuries and achieved modest progress toward SDG Target 3.6. To further progress, FRSC can help by enhancing enforcement of speed violations and by educating road users about road safety practices. Also, they could investigate why certain geographical areas had disproportionate amounts of RTCs, deaths, and injuries. 

Status of Road Safety in the Region of the Americas

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Child Restraint

In the three years since the last road safety report was issued, the number of road traffic deaths has continued to increase throughout the Americas, reaching 154,997 deaths in 2016 (latest year of available data). However, the death rate from road traffic crashes has remained stable (15.6 per 100,000 population in 2016 as compared to 15.9 per 100,000 population in 2013). Data presented in this report show that aspects of road safety management, legislation, and post-crash care have improved in some countries. However, the improvements have been modest and it is clear that the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.6, to halve road traffic deaths by 2020, will not be achieved... Since 2014, more countries in the Region have implemented road safety legislation. Two additional countries, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay, established laws on drink-driving based on best practice, bringing the total to eight countries. Ecuador implemented legislation on helmet use (resulting in a total of seven countries), Dominican Republic implemented legislation on seat-belts (19 countries in total), while Chile implemented child restraint laws (two countries in total). However, no new speed laws have been enacted in the Region. Overall, four countries (Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Uruguay) have amended their laws regarding one or more road safety risk factors to bring them in line with best practice. Despite these legislative developments, enforcement remains a major challenge in most countries...

scholarly journals Identifying Factors that Influence the Patterns of Road Crashes Using Association Rules: A case Study from Wisconsin, United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Yu ◽  
Yuanhua Jia ◽  
Dongye Sun
Keyword(s):  
Association Rules ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Road Crashes ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
Fatal Crashes ◽  
Safety Improvement ◽  
Children And Young Adults

Road traffic injury is currently the leading cause of death among children and young adults aged 5–29 years all over the world. Measures must be taken to avoid accidents and promote the sustainability of road safety. The current study aimed to identify risk factors that are significantly associated with the severity in crash accidents; therefore, traffic crashes could be reduced, and the sustainable safety level of roadways could be improved. The Apriori algorithm is carried out to mine the significant association rules between the severity of the crash accidents and the factors influencing the occurrence of crash accidents. Compared to previous studies, the current study included the variables more comprehensively, including environment, management, and the state of drivers and vehicles. The data for the current study comes from the Wisconsin Transportation crash database that contains information on all reported crashes in Wisconsin in the year 2016. The results indicate that male drivers aged 16–29 are more inclined to be involved in crashes on roadways with no physical separation. Additionally, fatal crashes are more likely to occur in towns while property damage crashes are more likely to occur in the city. The findings can help government to make efficient policies on road safety improvement.

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.

Ethnicity, deprivation and road traffic injury risk: a survey of risk and road safety and implications for injury prevention

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Christie ◽  
Richard H. Kimberlee ◽  
Ronan Lyons ◽  
Elizabeth Towner ◽  
Heather Ward
Keyword(s):  
Injury Prevention ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Traffic Injury

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.

scholarly journals Road Traffic Injury on Rural Roads in Tanzania: Measuring the Effectiveness of a Road Safety Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 456-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Zimmerman ◽  
Deepani Jinadasa ◽  
Bertha Maegga ◽  
Alejandro Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Rural Roads ◽  
Safety Program ◽  
Traffic Injury

scholarly journals Development and pilot study road traffic injury surveillance, Kaduna Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Obafemi J. Babalola
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Seat Belt ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Injury Surveillance ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Traffic Injury

ObjectiveWe pilot a RTI surveillance system using data from FRSC, Policemotor traffic division and Health facilities in Kaduna metropolis,Nigeria to ascertain its feasibility and generate data needed for actiontoward achieving sustainable development goals 3.6 target.IntroductionRoad Traffic Injury is common cause of unintentional injuryglobally and Low and middle income countries account for 90%of 1.3 million Road Traffic Injury (RTI) deaths. In Africa region,Nigeria accounts for 25% of RTI mortality but has no comprehensiveand reliable RTI surveillance system. Data from Federal RoadSafety Commissions (FRSC) shows gaps in RTI reporting with largedisparity with estimated value from World Health Organization.MethodsKaduna metropolis is the capital of Kaduna State with estimatedpopulation of 1.96 million. It is a major route between Abuja, theNational capital and 15 northern Nigeria states with high vehicularmovement. We adapted WHO Injury surveillance guideline andCenters for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance trainingmanual for this study. A case of RTI is any person injured or diedwithin 30 days as a result injuries incurred from vehicular collision ona public road in Kaduna Metropolis. Data collected using a pretestedquestionnaire for RTI cases at health facilities, Police and FRSC.Data were linked by deterministic method, cleaned and analysed.Frequency and proportion were calculated to characterize the RTI.The study was supported by a mini-grant from Center for DiseaseControl and Prevention.ResultsData was collected from February to April 2016. Of the 324crashes reported, 566 people injured and 66 deaths with case fatalityrate of 11.7%. Male gender accounts for 81.8% and age 20 – 39 yearswere 64.6%. Commercial drivers were 20.7%, pedestrian 21% andpassengers were 53.7%. Sixty percent of the crash occurred betweencars or buses while 21% were without collision with any vehicle orstationary objects. Of the 66 deaths reported 61(92.4%) died at crashsite. FRSC evacuated 21%, 38.6% were evacuated by other road users.No use of seat belt and crash helmets reported and only 5.1% receivedfirst aid care before reaching reporting facility. RTI Incidence peakedbetween 6:00 PM to 8:59 PM with 26 persons per hour.ConclusionsEssential to sustainable development goal 3, a multisectorRTI surveillance system that generate data for action in Kadunametropolis, Nigeria is feasible and data generated was used for actionat different levels to mitigate against the burden of RTI

scholarly journals The association of road safety knowledge and risk behaviour with paediatric road traffic injury in Guangzhou, China

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Dong ◽  
C. Peek-Asa ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
S. Wang ◽  
X. Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
Safety Knowledge
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