Road Traffic Accidents along Kaduna-Zaria Highway, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Abstract

Kaduna-Zaria Highway is one of the roads in Nigeria with high accident incidents. The road is approximately 80 km starting from Queen Amina Fly over Bridge Kawo, Kaduna to Dogarawa, Zaria. This study assessed the causes of accidents on the road with a view to leveraging Artificial Intelligence Technology to combat or reduce it. Data was collected from Federal Road Safety Corps Commands, (Kaduna, Birnin Yero and Zaria) and substantiated by 357 respondents randomly selected at accident hotspots. Questionnaire was used to get responses from road users and fifteen (15) factors listed as the causes of road traffic accidents on the road were identified as obtained from the FRSC. Among the 15 factors identified, three which are: speed violation with 0.943038 relative importance index, reckless and dangerous driving with 0.898734 and dangerous overtaking with 0.89557 were found to be the leading causes. To curb road traffic accident on this important road that link not only the two towns, but also Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi States, it was recommended that Artificial Intelligence should be deployed in road traffic management in the study area.