Reported Incidence of Vehicular Accidents in the Battor Catholic Hospital.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 

A vehicular accident can be defined as a transport accident that (1) involves a vehicle in transport, (2) is not an aircraft accident or water accident, (3) does not include any harmful event involving a railway train in transport prior to the involvement of a vehicle in transport. (Oxford English Dictionary, 2007). Vehicular accidents fall under the broad umbrella of road traffic accidents of which motorcycle crash accidents and bicycle accidents are all under. This study focused on vehicular accidents and for the purpose of that car accidents and vehicular accidents were used interchangeably. Due to the tremendous effects of road traffic accidents on human lives, properties, and environments, vehicular accidents have become one of the worrying and growing concerns to most Ghanaians in recent times. Globally, it is estimated that road traffic crashes will be the 3rd leading cause of death by the year 2020 if rigorous actions are not taken (WHO, 2015). According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and World Bank (1999) report on „The Global Burden of Disease‟, road traffic injuries are expected to move from ninth place to third place in the rank order of disease burden by the year 2020.