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Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Road accidents in Nigeria occurred more on Tuesdays

 

Accident Data Nigeria a road safety campaign project that aims to crowd-source accident data through social media platforms has published its first report on accidents over the last 4 weeks.
They commenced data gathering on 11th July, 2015 and below are some the interesting highlights of the crowd-sourced accident data:
  1. More accidents were observed on Tuesdays and less on weekends in Lagos
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  1. Third mainland, an 11.8km bridge recorded the highest number of crash over the period
  2. Accident rate is high on Lagos routes as well as on inter-city routes
  3. Trucks were the major source of accidents in Lagos with about 34 counts
  4. Majority of the accidents within Lagos and Inter-city routes occur at day time
  5. Accidents related to Commercial buses recorded the highest number of injuries, while accidents related to Trucks recorded the highest number of deaths and second highest injuries.
  6. Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo recorded the highest number of fatalities and injuries on their inter-city routes. It would be of high interest to collect data within the cities
  7. Men are twice more involved in road accident deaths and injuries than women
“Accidents are underreported in Nigeria and we hope to solve this problem. We have a vision to build an accident database that would help visualize, understand, locate and forestall road accidents. The data gathered over our first 4 weeks has proven our course, and shows we are up to a herculean task”, the report said.

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