August was a very busy month in terms of accident occurrence, with unusual accidents like 2 Train crashes in Lagos that claimed 8 lives, 1 Helicopter crash that claimed 6 lives in Lagos and 1 Air force plane crash in Kaduna that claimed 7 lives. This report presents the road accident counts on routes within Lagos and Inter-City routes across Nigeria from 1st – 31st August, 2015.
Lagos routes recorded 78 counts of reported accidents in August. The highest accident counts were recorded within Lekki area, followed by Idi-Iroko of Anthony area as shown in the charts. Accident occurrence was observed to be highest during the morning peak hours and most of them occurred at day time. The cumulative accident count shows Tuesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays with the highest accidents respectively, while Wednesday, Thursday and Friday recorded relatively low accidents respectively. There were 50 counts of Car, 29 counts of Truck, 12 counts of Bus, 9 counts of Pedestrian, 5 counts of Fallen Container, 3 counts of Motorcycle, 3 counts of Train, and 1 count of Danfo involvement in road accidents reported in August.
On the Inter-City routes, 68 counts of accidents reported accidents. Few accidents were observed in the wee hours of the day, while majority of the accidents were observed during the day. Saturday, Sunday and Monday recorded the highest reported accidents respectively, while Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday recorded the least reported accidents respectively. The highest accident counts were recorded in Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Osun and Ebonyi state respectively. 135 adult male, 8 child male, 44 adult female and 7 child female were injured, while 74 adult male, 3 child male, 34 adult female and 4 child female were killed, making a total of 115 people were killed and 194 people injured in August. There were 37 counts of Bus, 27 counts of Car, 25 counts of Truck, 13 counts of Motorcycle and 2 counts of pedestrian involvement in road accidents reported in August.
The charts below gives a visualization of our accident data for Lagos and Inter-City in the month of August.
Since our data crowd-sourced, we make every effort to validate the quality of the data used in our reports, while others with poor quality are discarded. Although the size of data available to us at this stage is not sufficient for any conclusion, the following points can be highlighted from the charts;
- More accidents occur during the day on Lagos and Inter-City routes, which means that most accidents are not a function of visibility or poor weather condition.
- Accidents reported were highest on Tuesday in Lagos, while Saturday and Sunday recorded the highest accidents on Inter-City routes in August.
- It is difficult at the moment to confirm injuries and fatalities for accidents on Lagos routes, but we are working out ways to solve this puzzle.
- On Inter-City routes, Truck related accidents recorded the highest fatalities with 74 counts, while Commercial Bus related accidents recorded the highest injuries with 79 counts.
- Men are twice injured and killed than women in road accidents reported in August.
- Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, and Ebonyi recorded the highest fatality count respectively, while Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Anambra, Kwara and Sokoto recorded the highest injury count their inter-city routes.
- Road accident is one of the major sources of traffic congestion on Lagos routes and violent death across Nigeria which could be forestalled.
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