Abstract:
Road safety is major public health concern over the world. The threat is even bigger in developing countries like Pakistan. Urban transport infrastructures in most of the Pakistani cities are inadequate and deteriorated over years. In Quetta capital city of Balochistan roads of the city are congested and overcrowded. The public transport has not kept pace with abrupt increase in population and with safety and comfort of passengers. Thus persuading passengers to turn to personalized vehicles. This results not only in flow of traffic but also put the user life at great risk. This research attempts to analyze the road accidents in Quetta using annual data of year 2017 (January to December). Data is collected from Police department and Sandeman provincial hospital Quetta. The analysis of data is done with the help of MS Excel. And the conclusions are, total number of accidents occurred in Quetta in year 2017 are 199. In which 84 accidents are fatal accidents, 113 are non-fatal and 2 property damage accidents. Careless driving is the cause of 98% of accidents which is unrealistic. Males are prone to accidents with 88%. While most abundant type of collision is pedestrian hit 52%. (Western bypass) is the most accidents prone location in the city where around 18% of all accidents occurred during the year 2017. Motorcycles are involved by 34% in accidents. There is a big difference between the injured of police data and hospital data. Ratio of injured people of police to hospital data is 16:1. 4218 patients were brought hospital and 254 people were recorded as injured in police data. Countermeasures are complete surveillances of accidents should be done to collect complete and reliable data. Proper traffic management system should be imposed in the city. Pedestrian crosses must be provided. Road safety awareness should be provided and Strict and transparent method should apply for new as well as renewal of driving license.
