The nature and socio - economic impacts of road accidents in Morogoro municipality, Tanzania
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Date
2006
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
Road accidents have been seen as a major source of deaths and injuries among road users
in Tanzania. Following these road accidents many Tanzanians have lost their lives, some
got permanent disabilities and some lost their valuable property. The government has
been incurring a lot of resources in treating injured persons out of these accidents. The
main objective of this research was to find the nature and socio - economic impacts of
road accidents to road users. The findings indicate that there are various causes of road
accidents among them are human factors, defectiveness of the motor vehicles and poor
roads. Drivers and other road users have been not obeying the road laws and regulations
which are the basic tool for road safety in Tanzania. The provided statistics show how
seriously the issue of road accidents in Tanzania is.
Apart from these losses, there is
another immeasurable loss which is the loss of human life. The most affected group is the
group of passengers and pedestrians followed by bicyclists, drivers, motorcyclists and
lastly push cart operators. Road accidents which involve buses i.e. (passengers cars) are
the most dangerous, because there is a high possibility of killing and injuring a big number
of people compared to non-passenger vehicles. Following the impacts or the problem of
road accidents in Tanzania, the government through the National Road Safety Council of
Tanzania (NRSCT), the Police Force (PF) and other non-governmental organizations have
been taking various measures to curb the problem. So far the awareness of road traffic
laws and regulations through education to road users has shown a positive role towards the
problem. That all governmental, non-governmental organizations and the individuals
should participate fully in fighting against road accidents.
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Road accident, Road accident impact