ACCIDENTS RATES AND VEHICULAR BRANDS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF MINIBUSES CRASHES IN ONDO STATE
ACCIDENTS RATES AND VEHICULAR BRANDS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF MINIBUSES CRASHES IN ONDO STATE

Summary/Abstract: There is a steady increase in the vehicular accidents on the trunk roads in Ondo State. A large number of these accidents involve commercial minibuses, many of which results to high causality and fatality rates. This study sets out to assess the cases of accidents rates in Ondo State bearing in mind the vehicular brands involved in these accidents to ascertain if there is any prevailing trend involving any set of or any particular brands. To do this, accidents records of the Ondo State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission and that of the Reports of the Accident Investigation Unit of the Traffic Department of the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force were considered between the 2008 and 2018. The results showed that most Toyota Mini Buses were involved in most accidents cases recorded in the Ondo State. This does not say that these vehicles were less engineered. However, the high level of involvement can be tied to the large scale use of this brand. The study revealed that Toyota minibuses are most prominent on roads in Ondo State for commercial passenger road transport operations and as such were involved the most in Road Transport Accidents (RTAs). A model of probability of involvement was developed, which means that with a given knowledge of cases of RTAs in any given year in Ondo State, one can confidently predict the number of any vehicular type or brand that could be involved in RTAs in the given year or period. Human errors led to most of the RTAs.

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