Factors Contributing to Road Traffic Accidents in Tanzania. The case of Morogoro Municipality and Dar es salaam City
- Author Benedicto Kazuzuru
- DOI
- Country : Tanzania
- Subject : Mathematics
Keywords : accidents, driving school, sex
Abstract
The study investigated factors, contributing to road accidents in Tanzania. Most of the previous studies on causes of road accidents in Tanzania were done descriptively using frequencies and percentages. However, this study attempted to examine such causes using a statistical model. The study was done in two regions of Morogoro and Dar es Salaam. The study population consisted of drivers in different working places and different car parking centers of Morogoro municipality and Dar es salaam City. A sample of 386 drivers was randomly selected from the working offices and the car parking centers of Morogro Municipality and Dar es salaam City. Questionnaires were used to collect the information from the drivers. The main questions were on number of accidents which a driver has faced since starting driving, drivers’ demographic characteristics such as age, education and drinking behavior. Data were analyzed in STATA 13 using a Poisson regression. The results indicated that road traffic accidents are associated with male gender, young age, not attending a driving school, inexperience, lack of marriage, and drinking behavior. The study recommends that together with traffic law enforcement public car drivers should be mainly women or married aged men so as to minimize accidents.
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