Assessment of Motorcycle Crashes in South Omo Zone, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Getu, Segni (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tegegn, Mota | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-29T09:27:48Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-11T12:53:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-29T09:27:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-11T12:53:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Road traffic crashes have a significant impact on social, economic and public health sectors in Ethiopia. Globally, close to 1.35 million peoples die from road traffic crashes each year. Of these, on average,28% of road traffic death accounted for two and three-wheelers worldwide. These figures indicate that two and three-wheelers death occurs more than a quarter of all road traffic crashes. In South Omo, motorcycles are often used for personal and commercial transport and gradually leads to different crashes, which deserves more attention. The main objective of this study is to assess the magnitude and factors associated with motorcycle crashes in the south Omo zone, Ethiopia. Both primary and secondary data sources were used. Four-year police-reported crash data included reports from (January 2014 to December 2017) about motorcycle crashes was conducted from records of four police stations of south Omo zone and standard questionnaire were require an in-depth understanding of the problems. First, descriptive statistics were used by using frequency distribution and percentages. Multinomial logistic regression model and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were done using SPSS software which was used to analyses secondary and primary data respectively. The results indicate that a total of two hundred six motorcycle crashes have been registered in four police stations throughout the studied are from (January 2014 to December 2017). Among these,36(17.5%) was fatal,88(42.7%) were serious injuries,52(25.2%) were slight injuries and 30(14.6%) were caused by property damages. The gender proportion of motorcycle crashes were happened by male riders only. The result of multinomial logistic regression model reveals that, severity of motorcycle crash increase with riders age of below 18 and between 31-50;low education level(5 to 8); insufficient riding experience(over 2 to 5); owners of motorcycle; long service year of motorcycle(over 5 to 10) and motorcycle with sudden mechanical problems are the main determinant factors for the occurrence of motorcycle crashes. Almost, the highest number of motorcycles are legally registered. But, some of them are unregistered and the impact would be the severity of the crash which might be worst. In addition, the result from the participants or motorcycle riders in this study respond shows that, of the total,37.9% of motorcycle riders are not wearing safety helmets. Moreover, the main factors that contribute to the occurrence of motorcycle crashes are human factors 266(68.6%), Vehicular (motorcycle) factor 36(9.3%), environmental factor 44(11.3%) and the other like enforcement of legislation and regulation 42(10.8%) are other factors to the occurrence of motorcycle crashes. Based on the study, among others, the most important factors for motorcycle crashes were failure to give priority for pedestrians, careless riding, over speeding and violating traffic rules. Besides, loss of control of motorcycle and collision while overtaking other road users were the other most risk factors. Generally, the problem was steadily increasing in the study area over this period of time and needs critical remedial measurements. Though, the concerned policymakers may need to consider those mentioned factors; ensuring that motorcycle riders obey traffic rules, making sure that the riders are properly training before riding and enforcing the speed limit appear to be the most critical parts of necessary measurements. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/20781 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Motorcycle | en_US |
| dc.subject | Crashes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Magnitude | en_US |
| dc.subject | Risk factors | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Omo Zone | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Motorcycle Crashes in South Omo Zone, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |