Research Article
Prevalence and Pattern of Road Traffic Accidents among Commercial Motorcyclists in the Central Tongu District, Ghana
Table 1
Demographic characteristics and prevalence of road traffic crashes in Adidome.
| Variables | Parameter | Frequency | Percentage |
| Age distribution | Less than 20 | 12 | 10.5 | 20–30 | 66 | 57.9 | 31–40 | 30 | 26.3 | More than 40 | 6 | 5.3 |
| Sex distribution | Male | 114 | 100.0 | Female | 0 | 0.0 |
| Marital status | Single | 72 | 63.2 | Married | 37 | 32.5 | Divorced | 5 | 4.4 |
| Alcohol consumption | Yes | 39 | 34.2 | No | 75 | 65.8 |
| History of accident | Yes | 73 | 64.0 | No | 41 | 36.0 |
| Number of times involved in an accident | Once | 46 | 63.0 | Twice | 20 | 27.4 | Thrice | 6 | 8.2 | Four times or more | 1 | 1.4 |
| Suffered an accident within the past year | Yes | 54 | 74.0 | No | 19 | 26.0 |
| Frequency of accident within the last year | Once | 39 | 72.2 | Twice | 13 | 24.1 | Thrice | 2 | 3.7 |
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