Road accident trends in Nigeria
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Comparative Analysis of R2S Platform among Developed and Developing Countries
2024, Transportation Research ProcediaRoad safety research in the context of low- and middle-income countries: Macro-scale literature analyses, trends, knowledge gaps and challenges
2022, Safety ScienceCitation Excerpt :In 2020, an estimated 15.7% of the papers published on road safety can be linked to research undertaken in relation to LMICs, and this is the highest proportion recorded since 1970. Among the earliest LMIC papers, contributions of authors from African countries such as Nigeria (Asogwa, 1980, 1992; Jegede, 1988; Oluwasanmi, 1993), South Africa (Fernie, 1982; Flisher et al., 1993), Libya (Mekky, 1984) and Kenya (Odero, 1995) seem notably represented. Appendix A lists the oldest LMIC papers according to the WoS record.
When left is ‘right’! The impact of driving-side practice on road fatalities in Africa
2021, Transport PolicyCitation Excerpt :However, as the country persisted with the left side driving rule, the road fatality rate seemed to have declined to 15.8 deaths per 100,000 people in 2013 and then to 11.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016 (World Health Organization 2015, 2018). When we look at the case of Nigeria that changed its driving rule from left side driving to right side driving in 1972, we find that the road fatality rate increased from 4.71 deaths per 100,000 people in 1971 to 6.35 deaths per 100,000 people in 1973 (Van der Westhuizen 2016; Oluwasanmi 1993). The long-term road fatality rate in Nigeria seems to be at a higher base level since the change, with the road fatality rate being 8.17 per 100,000 people in 1989 and 21.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016 (Oluwasanmi 1993; World Health Organization 2018).
Psychosocial factors influencing aggressive driving among commercial and private automobile drivers in Lagos metropolis
2012, Social Science JournalCitation Excerpt :Ugwuegbu (1977) and Balogun (1991) reported research findings that Lagos is characterized with perpetual traffic jams, daily loss of inestimable working hours, road accidents and ensuing scuffles among road users; all of which can be attributed to seemingly nonobservance of traffic rule and regulations, as well as aggressive behaviors of the automobile drivers. In Lagos city, it is worth mentioning that drivers of both commercial and private vehicles are known to have a uniquely aggressive driving culture (Oluwasanmi, 1993). More specifically, however, commercial vehicle drivers are known to be rough, reckless, always in haste, rudely disobedient to traffic rules and more prone to accidents.
Road Use Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa
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