STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF ROAD ACCIDENTS (A CASE IN ENUGU STATE FROM 1993 TO 2000)

ABSTRACT Road accident has been of great social and economic concern.  It has became a total topic for scientific investigation.  The number of deaths on the road today, particularly on the major roads of rural-urban areas are what motivated me in writing this project. This study is essentially based on the Statistical Analysis of Road Accidents recorded in Enugu rural-urban roads from 1993 to 2000 with the objectives to; identify the causes of road accidents in Enugu and compare the attendant fatalities/deaths, ascertain whether the causes of road accidents are unrelated with vehicles, establish the trend of road accident over the years, investigate, whether there is any seasoned pattern of occurrence of road accident and trend and/or investigate whether there is any seasonal pattern of the attendant deaths and trend, and recommend methods or ways of reducing road accidents to the Enugu State government, the institutions concerned with traffic management and enforcement of the laws within the geo-political entity and the road users, and the federation in general. The project work is divided into five chapters.  Chapter one gives the introduction, socio-economic effects of road accidents, aims and objectives, scope and limitation, significance of the study, sources of data and the problems of the data collection.  Chapter two covers the literature review.  Chapter three is concerned with the methodology.  Chapter four deals with the data presentation and analysis.  Finally, chapter five covers the findings, conclusion and recommendation on the way forward.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE APPROVAL PAGE DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ABSTRACT
CHAPTER ONE 1.0Introduction 1.1Socio-economic effects of road accidents 1.2Aims and objectives 1.3Scope and limitation 1.4Significance of the study 1.5Sources of data collection 1.6Problems of data collect
CHAPTER TWO 2.0Literature review
CHAPTER THREE 3.0Methodology 3.1Chi-square test of independence 3.2Analysis of variance (anova) two-way  analysis of variance 3.3Method of least square
CHAPTER FOUR 4.0Data presentation and analysis 4.1Analysis of data in table 4 4.2Analysis of data in table 5 4.3Investigation of seasonal pattern of  occurence of road accident & trend 4.4Analysis of data in table 6 4.5Investigation of seasonal pattern of  occurrence of deaths of the rta & trend 4.6Analysis of data in table 7 4.7Presentation of the rta in enugu state  on a histrogram
CHAPTER FIVE 5.0Findings and conclusion 5.1Recommendation
  LIST OF TABLES TABLE 1:CONTINGENCY TABLE TABLE 2:TWO-WAY ANOVA TABLE TABLE 3:TWO-WAY ANOVA (CROSS EFFECT) TABLE TABLE 4:NUMBER OF ROAD ACCIDENT BY CAUSES AND TYPE OF VEHICLE (1993 – 2000) TABLE 5:ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DATA ACCIDDENT DATA (1993 – 2000) TABLE 6:ROAD TRAFFIC DEATH RECORD (1993 – 2000) TABLE 7:TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENT IN ENUGU (1993 – 2000)