Open AccessPredictors of Road Traffic Accident, Road Traffic Injury and Death among Commercial Motorcyclists in an Urban Area in Nigeria
Author(s) -
Prosper O. U. Adogu,
A Ilika,
A. L. Asuzu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v18i4.51250
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , environmental health , road traffic , injury prevention , demography , slum , poison control , medical emergency , transport engineering , engineering , mathematics , population , sociology , geometry
Road traffic accidents, injuries and deaths remain important public health problems in both developed and developing countries. These problems have since escalated with the introduction of the new phenomenon of commercial motorcycle transportation such as is found in the urbanizing slum of Nnewi, Anambra state of Nigeria.