Road traffic accidents in Saddam city-1983

ABSTRACT

In the first quarter of the year 1983 there were 305 road traffic accidents [RTA] in Saddam City. The number of people injuried in those accidents were 144 persons, in, which 47.8% were below 14 years of age. 79.9% of the accidents were runover, the highest percentage [35.3%] of the accidents occur among governmental cars, 34% of the drivers were in the army services at the time of accidents. The number of accidents varies during the hours of the day but there was no appearent differences between the number of accidents among the days of the week. Also there were differences between the age of drivers for the occurrence of RTA but such differences did not exist between the age of injured persons