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