An Analysis of Deaths from Road Traffic Accidents in Lagos State, Nigeria

Abstract

The major objective of this paper is to analyze the reported deaths from road traffic accidents in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study used mostly secondary data. The data were obtained for a period of thirty-two years (32) from 1970-2001. The 16 harmonics for the selected Local Government Areas considered contribute above 90% of the total variance in the time series. This means that more than 90% of deaths from road traffic accidents in Lagos State could be attributed to recklessness on the part of drivers, ignorance of high way codes, over speeding etc. Also, the dominant cycles of deaths from road traffic accidents observed in the study area have periodicities of 32.00, 10.67 and 4.0 years with the most dominant being 32 years. Based on the findings,
recommendations were proffered.