Prevalence Of Motorcycle Injuries In Nakuru County Referral Hospital, Nakuru County Kenya
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 10
Abstract
Traffic crashes are predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030.Currently Motorcycle accidents are the second most common cause of road traffic accidents in both developed and developing countries. In Kenya Motorcyclists’ are the third most common causes of road traffic injury admissions. Information about motorcycle injuries is easily available in the developed countries from hospital records, vital statistics, and police records but in Kenya studies covering a wide range of these injuries are minimal. The current study aimed to increase the knowledge on the burden of motorcycle injuries by determining the number of injury cases attributed to motorcycle accidents, finding out the common types of injuries sustained from motorcycle accidents by age and sex distribution and to establish the causative factors of motorcycle injuries. The results showed that 27.1% of the respondents had been involved in a motorcycle accident. The majority of who were male with 80.8% of which 50% of the injuries were fractures. Those aged between 21-30yrs were the most affected at 42.3%, with the commonest cause of the motorcycle injuries being over speeding. Road safety campaigns should be conducted in a bid to reduce the number of these motorcycle injuries.
Authors and Affiliations
Njenga Mukuria G. 1 ;, Peter Kasyoki J. 2 ;, Thomas O. L. 3 ;, Bernice. W. 4 ;, J. W. Kuria5
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