Evaluation Of The Effect Of Traffic Offenses On Road Traffic Crashes In Bahir Dar City Ethiopia

Road traffic crashes are a major public health problem worldwide, the number of annual roadrntraffic deaths has reached 1.35 million per year (WHO, 2018). Road traffic injuries are now thernleading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The main objective of this study is to investigate therneffect of traffic offenses on road traffic crashes in Bahir Dar city and also analysis sciodemographyrnfactorsrnonrntherntrafficrnoffenses.rnThernquantitativernmethodsrnarernusesrninrnsecondaryrndatarnrnthatrnrnis the traffic offence penalties from Bahir Dar city traffic police commission andrnquestionnaires distributed to the driver and uses as primary data. rnrnAbout 70.14% of drivers aged between 24-29 years and 20.63% of drivers aged between 30-35rnyears and 99.8% of the sampled drivers were males and almost all of the traffic violation wasrncaused by male and youth drivers. Illegal parking, loading passengers above the capacity of thernvehicle, driving the vehicle without schedule and permission and violation traffic signs are thernmajor traffic offences types in Bahir Dar city. From Chi-square test there is an associationrnbetween the occurrences of road traffic offences and age, gender, education level, drivingrnexperience, license level and day of the week. Finally, young age driver, high school educationrnlevel, (Truck 1, Public 1, Taxi1-Public 1, and Level 3) license level, and male driver showsrnhigher connection with the number of traffic offences and crashes.

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