Table 2 Characteristics of RTA’s Fatal according to time, place, Weather condition, and Type of Vehicles Involved in Accidents from 2018 to 2020, Addis Ababa Town, Ethiopia
Variables | Category | Frequency of fatalities of RTAs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nonfatal | Fatal | ||||
N | % | N | % | ||
Time at which the accident occurred | 6:00 AM-12:00 PM | 839 | 11.7 | 211 | 14.7 |
12:00 PM-6:00 PM | 2212 | 30.8 | 335 | 26.9 | |
6:00PM-12:00AM | 2090 | 29.1 | 262 | 21 | |
12:00AM-6:00AM | 2043 | 28.4 | 466 | 37.4 | |
Season | Autumn | 1925 | 26.8 | 321 | 25.2 |
Winter | 1674 | 23.3 | 341 | 26.77 | |
Spring | 1647 | 22.9 | 295 | 23.15 | |
Summer | 1938 | 27 | 317 | 24.88 | |
Whether Condition | Dry | 6354 | 88.44 | 1106 | 86.8 |
Foggy/cloudy | 347 | 4.8 | 93 | 7.3 | |
Rainy | 477 | 6.76 | 65 | 5.9 | |
Types of vehicles involved in the accident | Two or three-wheeler | 1271 | 17.7 | 221 | 17.3 |
Public transport | 2275 | 31.67 | 333 | 26.1 | |
Commercial truck | 2016 | 28 | 487 | 38.2 | |
Automobile | 1622 | 22.63 | 233 | 18.4 | |
Road types | Straight | 4897 | 68.16 | 1020 | 80 |
Curved | 1838 | 25.58 | 87 | 6.8 | |
Tilted | 449 | 6.26 | 167 | 13.2 | |