3.3. Impact in the field of the road safety
The inadequacy of the installation of
the roadway system of a city can also have impacts on safety in road.
The following tables give some statistics on this road
insecurity.
Table12: Numbersof road
accidents in urban areas for the year 2007
|
Center
|
Littoral
|
West
|
N.O
|
S.O
|
South
|
Adam.
|
Ea
|
North
|
Fa-No.
|
Total
|
|
January
|
407
|
21
|
24
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
11
|
6
|
0
|
5
|
479
|
|
February
|
410
|
0
|
12
|
18
|
12
|
10
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
476
|
|
March
|
379
|
0
|
21
|
0
|
10
|
16
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
431
|
|
April
|
273
|
0
|
15
|
4
|
5
|
11
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
313
|
|
May
|
315
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
18
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
343
|
|
June
|
288
|
179
|
5
|
0
|
6
|
17
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
503
|
|
July
|
363
|
210
|
4
|
1
|
9
|
5
|
0
|
6
|
3
|
3
|
604
|
|
August
|
297
|
12
|
1
|
2
|
9
|
8
|
0
|
10
|
2
|
0
|
341
|
|
September
|
293
|
178
|
17
|
0
|
16
|
10
|
6
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
524
|
|
October
|
422
|
63
|
20
|
9
|
17
|
9
|
0
|
3
|
22
|
0
|
565
|
|
November
|
295
|
171
|
9
|
22
|
34
|
9
|
4
|
8
|
16
|
3
|
571
|
|
December
|
277
|
160
|
10
|
24
|
29
|
8
|
7
|
7
|
19
|
6
|
547
|
|
Total
|
4019
|
994
|
143
|
80
|
186
|
111
|
17
|
59
|
66
|
22
|
5697
|
Source : PDU
Table13: Average road accidents per day recorded
during the year 2008 in the center region
|
Accidents Fatal
|
Personal injuries
|
Material accidents
|
Died
|
Wounded
|
Damagedvehicles
|
|
2,3
|
4,92
|
2,12
|
2,92
|
12,69
|
18,75
|
Source : PDU
From these figures, it
rises that the physical and material accidents in the area of the center region
in general and the in town of Yaoundé are one of the leading causes of
mortality (1056 died, 851 cases of accidents fatal) and of the
loss of the tangible properties (6844 damaged vehicles).
These accidents, for those which are done following a
collision pedestrian/vehicle are the result of the inadequacy of the functions
local life and road traffic as higher presented in this memory.
Several factors are thus found to be the source of these
multiple traffic accidents.
3.3.1.
Humanfactors
The users are the principal responsible of the accidents. The
reasons are varied. The imprudence of the driver, the non-observance of the
driving code, the lack of control of the vehicle, the excess speed, the catch
of alcohol or narcotic products are as many human failures which involve
accidents here. One can indicate besides that these the last two factors are
surely underestimated, because they are not the subject of detection.
3.3.2. Factor
vehicles
The mechanical or technical causes are those which are related
to the bad condition of the vehicles, this is due to the absence of
maintenance. On this aspect, the Cameroonian government tried to bring a
solution by instituting a control of a periodicity determined by category of
vehicles, but although there is an obligatory process of technical control of
the vehicles regulated by the decree n° 011/A/MINT of February 23rd, 1998,
mow is to note that the vehicles often do not have the technical elements of
safety complete and that one can circulate in Yaoundé with vehicles with
the windshield postpones lack and with defective concerned with safety units.
They are mainly the taxis and the minibuses. The strong frequency of controls
to which they are subjected does not improve of anything park quality. As this
study carried out in the town of Douala shows it and attests it the engineering
service of CADCIA, technical control raises the failures related to braking,
with the state of the tires, the shock absorbers, the traffic lights, the
headlights and the problems of direction. According to the statistics of the
approved centers, for the technical visits of car of the town of Yaoundé
in particular CADCIA and WCI, on the 150 vehicles received on average per day,
1/3 are returned for this type of failures.
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