Abstract:
In recent years, there has been increased interest in measuring pedestrian exposure to risk in
transportation research in order to understand the risk and propose remedial measures. Despite
this, little has been done to understand pedestrian exposure and risk factors of crashes with
pedestrians in developing countries, particularly in Ethiopia. In mekelle city from the year 2007-2015 over 1,675 road traffic accidents were occurred. Out of which, over 315 people were died,
over 780 people were suffered with easy and series non-fatal accidents.
The general objective of this paper was to Evaluate Motorized Vehicle Crashes with Pedestrian
in Mekelle City Road. The target population considered was all motor vehicle accidents exposed
to pedestrian crashes and recorded in Mekelle city of all sub cities, during the period from 2006
to 2010 E.C were included. In addition to this questionnaire to pedestrian and drivers of the city
which accounts a total of 785 were distributed to them. Data for the study were collected both
from primary and secondary sources, the study uses simple random sampling for driver and
pedestrians and purposive sampling method for those information collected from different
concerned office and stakeholders in the form of interview.
Data analysis was made using descriptive statistics, the results were presented in the form of
crosstab’s, pie charts and figures. Not giving priority to pedestrian, over speed, Failure to respect
right hand drive, not giving priority to vehicle were the major causes of crashes attributed by
traffic police. With regard to movement of the pedestrian during the accident, pedestrian got
accident while crossing illegally: using left side with no pedestrian facility and using right side
with no pedestrian facility were the leading risk factors for road crashes in the city.
It was concluded that majority of the crashes occur in daytime than night and most of the time
involve the cities active workforce. Finally it recommended that Training and awareness
campaigns are vital countermeasures which should be supplemented by engineering and
enforcement that could be used to make citizens aware of the injury.
