DETERMINANTS OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT OCCURRENCES IN LAGOS STATE: SOME LESSONS FOR NIGERIA
ATUBI, AUGUSTUS .O.

Abstract
Determinants of Road Traffic Accidents have become a major public health concern worldwide: However, unlike developed or high-income countries, many developing countries have made very little progress towards addressing this problem. Nonetheless, there are ways to strengthen the reduction of injured persons that will help to lower the toll from road traffic accidents. The purpose of this paper was to elucidate ways to accomplish these goals in the context of Lagos State, Nigeria. The result of the multiple regression analysis was 0.97. This implies that the proportion of variation in the dependent variable (i.e. road traffic accidents) explained by the independent variables (i.e. length of roads, presence of road safety and population) was 97%. The F-ratio of 276.41 was higher than the table value of 2.92 at 0.05 level of confidence. This shows that accidents significantly increase with increased length of roads (km), presence of road safety corps and population. Based on the findings recommendations were proffered on how to reduce the phenomenon of traffic accidents in Lagos State, Nigeria.

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