Road Safety and National Development
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2017
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Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences
Abstract
Road Traffic Accidents constitute a major cause of death and loss of property in the country, depleting the workface of the nation and causing psychological trauma for victims and their relatives and automobile fire inspired by collision of petroleum tankers on the roads has led to the loss of billions of naira. Accident statistics by the Federal Road Safety Corps and other independent agencies underscore the adverse effect of road accidents on the country development. This study focuses on Road safety and National development. The objectives of the study were to: (i) identify and assess the key causes of road crashes provoking injuries and deaths in Nigeria. (ii) examine, the impact of road accidents and crashes on National development...
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Accidents, Safety, Roads, Insurance, People