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Citation

Kalougivaki JJVP, Goundar RPS. J. Forensic Res. 2014; 5(6): e243.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, The author(s), Publisher OMICS Publishing Group)

DOI

10.4172/2157-7145.1000243

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) account for 1.7% of global mortality and 91% of the world's fatalities on the roads occur in the low-income and middle-income countries [1]. In middle-income and developing countries like Fiji, the costs incurred as a result of RTA account for 3 to 5% of the gross domestic product [2]. Furthermore, RTA are considered part of the "diseases of development" and occur as a result of third world development components that include the increase in the number of motor vehicles, environmental changes, increased population densities and pollution [3,4]. The average population growth rate in Fiji is 0.8% [5] with the recorded total population of 837 271 in 2007 [6] and 874 700 in 2012 [5]. There has been a constant growth of the number of motor vehicles in Fiji from 185 (2007) to 199 (2012) per 1000 population [6]. The majority of motor vehicles in Fiji are four wheeled whilst the two wheeled vehicles account for 2.9% of all vehicles [6]. Fiji has a number of measures enforced by the Land Transport Authority to ensure road safety. These measures include demerit point system, appropriate road type speed limits and laws on drink-driving, seat-belt, child restraint, mobile phones used whilst driving and motorcyclist not wearing helmets [7]. The raw surveillance of RTA is carried out by Traffic Control Division of the Fiji Police Force. Accordingly, the survey of the RTA from 2010 to 2013 showed that on average 5.2 RTA occur daily and there was a road traffic death rate of 5.7 per 100 000 population occurring annually in Fiji.


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