Current Trends of Vehicular Accidents in Nigeria.

The present study attempts to analyze the data on the Road Vehicular Accidents (RVAs) from 1960 to 2006, compare the data for pre-Federal Road Safety Commission and post-Federal Road Safety Commission, and develop models for the prediction of number of reported cases of accidents, number of deaths attributable to RVAs as well as number of injuries. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS 16.0 statistical package, the package was also used to develop the best of fit for the collected data by considering eleven models and the best selected. The study established that there reduction in the number of reported cases of accidents was statistically significant while those of deaths and injuries were not significant. Moreover, the values obtained using the models were not significantly different from the obtained data meaning that the models may be used to predict future cases of accidents, deaths and injuries. (Keywords: road vehicular accidents, RVA, deaths, injuries, safety, reported cases, model)