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Analysis And Management Of Road Accident
[A CASE STUDY ILORIN- OMU ARAN ROAD KWARA STATE]
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It touches on the development of real time analytical accident avoidance technology systems, transport information systems, and introduces the notion of highly automated accident analysis and policy response tools. Details of data analysis tools in particular those used in computational geography is given in the chapter 3. Back to this chapters section 2 is concerned with reviewing literature about the geography of road accidents incidence, where several sections of Whitelegg 1986 are quoted.
As mentioned above, Whitelegg 1986 review much of what was known of the geography of road traffic accidents at the time, highlights the importance of child casualties in the overall problem, and details why geographical analysis offers novel approaches to accident alleviation in the future
References, (Moellering, 1974) (Whitelegg, 1986)
2.2 ACCIDENT REPORTS AND STATISTICS
The first step in accident prevention is to have the accurate and detailed information of all circumstances surrounding past accidents. The data should include exact location and time, vehicle speeds, paths and damage light, and road situations, and drivers and vehicle conditions. Often there will be uncommon factors of great significance that could be recognized by a skill observer. For this reason a check list is usually insufficient and the reporter should provide details in narrative form. Also it must avoid bias for instance; the engineers might emphasis vehicle or road condition while police men could concentrate on law violations.
In particular, the reporter must resist the temptation to assign the accident to a single cause or to fix legal responsibility. Otherwise he may over look some hazard that, corrected, will contribute to a similar accident at a later time. As a means of gaining more complete and accurate accident report is compatible with state and federal system so that certain data will be provided on all accident reports.
In addition almost all the states have laws that required vehicle operation to reporting injuring or damages less than a stated amount need not be reported. Accident reports are collected at designated central locations such as the state highway patrol or state motor-vehicle department.
Sometimes duplicate copies are provided for traffic engineer; however, their use is usually resisted because of their confidential nature. From an engineering point of view, the reports themselves are most effectively used in field by location, although a chronological file with a location Gross index may be employed.
The processing and analysis of accident report data can be done in a variety of ways. Smaller agencies may do manually, but larger communities and state and federal agencies employ computers. Accident statistics based on collected data are reported through many outlets.
2.3 A FOCUS ON ROAD LAYOUT AND ROAD CHARACTERISTICS
It is reasonable to expect an increase road accident incidence (especially involving pedestrians) when a one-way road is changed in to two-way road and vice-versa, perhaps going from one-way to two-way the reasons are more obvious, but anyway it can be argued that there is increased risk for the majority of road users.
A pedestrian believing a street to be two-way and walking down the right hand side in the direction of road traffic might start to cross the right lane seeing on oncoming traffic prior to checking for traffic coming the other way.
2.4 THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF ROAD ACCIDENT DATA
Recall from the technology section that, it has been suggested that making speed mandatory could lead to a large regulation in the number of fatal road accidents. Now, this sort of suggestion can be reasonably inferred from road accident statistics where the basis of the inferences is an assumption that fatal road accidents involving excess speed would not have occurred if that specific contributing factor had not been present.
From now this referred to as the casualty. Reduction potential of a road safety measure. The statistics are used to help remedial treatments and also serves as basis for calculating the effectiveness of a measure. The examination of the trends in road accident data before and after the introduction of a road safety measure or change in the road on environmental is often the start point for analysis.
January 4th 2000 (Paul Baldwin) October 30th 1989 (Amit kapoor).
2.5 TYPES OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
The Often control or outcomes because of the speed involved when the collision take place on a 60mph single carriage way road with no separation of opposing lanes of traffic the legal closing speed of two vehicles will be 120mph.
The obvious cause of head on collision is when a vehicle is inadvertently strays the paths of oncoming vehicles. However the root cause something lies in a steering over correction/ after veering to the side of the road as opposed to the centre.
Intersection Accident
Crashes at intersection (road junction) area are very common types of road accident when a vehicle crosses an opposing traffic to turn at an intersection or side, or when one vehicle cross the of pitman of an adjoining vehicle at the intersection.
Pedestrian Accident
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) report that each year nearly 5,000 pedestrians die in motor vehicle related accident and more than 78,000 pedestrians suffer injuries by a car or truck. In addition to pedestrians vehicle accidents thousands of non-vehicles pedestrians also occur annually poor property maintenance, side walk or parking effects and / or construction or other debris on walkways causes or contribute to these accidents.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe major objective of this research is to examine the variation patterns of road traffic accident in Ilorin-Omu- Aran Road, Kwara State. The study used secondary data of Accident records and vehicular situation were obtained from the Nigeria police force (NPF) and Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). Chapter one of the projects deals and focused majorly on the general introduction which consist of the definition and meaning of road accident the aim and objectives of why t ... Continue reading---
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTITLE PAGE APPROVAL PAGE CERTIFICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABSTRACT CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Aim and objectives of these project 1.3 Significance of project 1.4 Scope of the project CHAPTER TWO2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW2.1 The multiple approaches of highway accidents2.2 Accident Report and Statistics 2.3 A focuses on road layout and road characteristics ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION Road Traffic Accidents are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in low-and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 3000 people are killed daily in road traffic accidents globally, with at least 30.000 others inured or disabled, This adds up to over 1 million people killed and between 20-50 million injured or crippled in road traffic crashes each year (Krug et al, 2000). The rising trend in morbidit ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 5 ]CHAPTER THREEMETHODOLOGY3.0 DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSISData for the study were mainly obtained from police accident records and were complemented with data from research reports and articles, and national statistical abstracts, and newspapers. The author reviewed the statistics for the years 1970 to 2001, disaggregated by administrative councils. The records contained information on crash severity (either fatal, serious, or minor), categories of road users affected, vehicles involved, a ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER FOUR4.0 RESULT AND DISCUSSION From the table 3.0-3.5, the July month has the highest recorded accident of 21.The total number of fatal accident was estimated as 20, while the total serious accident was recorded as 88, then the minor cases was estimated as 16, within the year of 2013. From the estimate, the accident occurrence is zigzag for it increase and decrease not accordingly but in terms of occurrence. With reference to the statistic information gathered bo ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION5.1 CONCLUSIONFrom the project research work, the recorded accident claims most lives of the passenger compare to the drivers. It can be seen that human, vehicle, environmental and roadways characteristics are salient factors that are responsible for road traffic crashes in South Western Nigeria.It was established that road traffic crashes can be prevented by embarking on various crashes prevention and reduction strategies such as edu ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCES1. Nigeria Police Force (NPF) (1970) “Accident Records.†Federal Capital Territory (FCT)2. Onakomaiya S.O (1988) “unsafe at any speed: towards Road Transportation.†For survival inaugural lecture, university of Ilorin.3. Onakomaiya S.O (1990) “Trends in Nigeria Roads Safety and Accident situation†A paper presented at a conference on accident control4. Gbadamosi K.T (1994) “Spatial Analysis of Road Accidents in Nigeria ... Continue reading---
