Abstract:
edestrian accidents are a serious and growing problem in the world, especially in the
cities of low-income and middle-income countries. Dire Dawa City, one of the federal states
in East Ethiopia has a high frequency of pedestrian injuries. Thus, the primary goal of the
study was to identify high risk intersections, relationships between pedestrian crashes and
the environments in terms of intersection and traffic characteristics. Three year (2013/14
to 2015/16) pedestrian crash data from police records of Dire Dawa Administration Police
Commission has been used in for the analysis. From the study, the total number of
pedestrian Crashes reported at Dire Dawa intersections were 165. From this, 13 were
fatal, 54 were serious injury and 98 were minor injury. Both probability sampling and
random sampling techniques were applied. Based on the results of this research using
priority value method, there were nine selected intersections from the 24 sample
intersections selected. To identify how specific roadway intersection characteristics are
associated with pedestrian crashes, this study conducted pedestrian crash frequency
analysis on the basis of negative binomial (NB) model. The analysis compared the
association of the number of pedestrian crash with intersection characteristics. In the
analysis, sixteen variables was considered for use in the statistical model of the number of
pedestrian crashes at each study intersection. The result of negative binomial regression
indicated that motorized traffic volume, pedestrian crossing volume, presence of school
and alcohol bar within 300m radius, availability of an intersection at near offices and
commercial areas, presence of stop or yield control and width of minor road were positively
associated with the number of pedestrian crashes. Therefore, these identified factors found
out which are associated with an increase in the number of pedestrian crashes. Based on
the findings, it was suggested countermeasures such as provision of sidewalks, pedestrian
crosswalk markings, pedestrian refuge island and regular crosswalks maintenance
