Host, Vehicular and environmental factors responsible for road traffic crashes in a nigerian city: Identifiable issues for road traffic injury control
Pan African Medical Journal, Volume 19, Article 159, Year 2014
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Introduction: road traffic injury (RTI) has assumed major public health importance world-wide and the burden is heavier on the health-care infrastructure of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, RTI is the leading cause of trauma related morbidity and mortality. While there are some published epidemiological reports on RTI in the region, studies on the mechanism of causation of road traffic crashes (RTC) are not available.