Abstract: Road traffic accident injuries affect 20 to 50 million people worldwide every year, causing premature death or disability as well as incurring large costs to individuals and society. A descriptive cross-sectional design was conducted to study the epidemiological pattern of road traffic accidents in Hodeida city, Yemen. It included (384) victims of road traffic accidents. The proportion of road traffic accident cases was 11% from the total patients whom admitted to emergency departments of hospitals, about One third (32.3%) were between 25 – 44 years age group, and 89.6% were males. About 32.8% had primary and intermediate education. (35.4%) occurred between 12 noon and 6 pm. Most of them in September (14.6%), the majority (56%) of the victims were using two-wheeled motorcycle, and pedestrians were the most frequent category of road users (36.5%). The majority of accidents occurred due to road condition at intersections (35%), most accidents due to sunny weather 40.1%. Most of the causes of traffic accidents were due to high speed (34.1%), drivers’ negligence (14.3%) and negligent road crossing. We recommended that the public road safety campaigns should be conducted, new driving license system should be imposed.
Keywords: Epidemiological pattern, Hodeida city, Road traffic accidents, pattern injuries.
Title: Epidemiological Pattern of Road Traffic Accident in Hodeida city, Yemen
Author: Adam Abdalla Mater, Ameen Mohammed Al-ashram
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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