Evaluation of The Effect of Traffic Offenses on Road Traffic Crashes In Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Getu, Segni (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Getinet, Abrham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-10T06:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-11T12:53:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-10T06:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-11T12:53:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Road traffic crashes are a major public health problem worldwide, the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million per year (WHO, 2018). Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of traffic offenses on road traffic crashes in Bahir Dar city and also analysis sciodemography factors on the traffic offenses. The quantitative methods are uses in secondary data that is the traffic offence penalties from Bahir Dar city traffic police commission and questionnaires distributed to the driver and uses as primary data. About 70.14% of drivers aged between 24-29 years and 20.63% of drivers aged between 30-35 years and 99.8% of the sampled drivers were males and almost all of the traffic violation was caused by male and youth drivers. Illegal parking, loading passengers above the capacity of the vehicle, driving the vehicle without schedule and permission and violation traffic signs are the major traffic offences types in Bahir Dar city. From Chi-square test there is an association between the occurrences of road traffic offences and age, gender, education level, driving experience, license level and day of the week. Finally, young age driver, high school education level, (Truck 1, Public 1, Taxi1-Public 1, and Level 3) license level, and male driver shows higher connection with the number of traffic offences and crashes. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/20580 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Traffic Offences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Traffic Crashes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Police Enforcement | en_US |
| dc.subject | Traffic Law Enforcement | en_US |
| dc.title | Evaluation of The Effect of Traffic Offenses on Road Traffic Crashes In Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |