Road traffic accidents concern the countries of the planet. They are responsible for a lot of damage. Motorcycle in the city of Mbuji-Mayi is a means of public transport as well as private, in the majority of cases. We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective descriptive study, from January 2020 to June 2020, on-road traffic accidents by motorcycle in the city of Mbuji-Mayi. The data were collected at the office of the Congolese National Police, Road Traffic Police Battalion/Kasaï Oriental. The study sample, after non-probability sampling, was 91 motorcycle accident cases out of 134 all-cause accident cases. The data collected was encoded on an Excel software database and processed with SPSS version 20 software. Our results show that the rate of road traffic accidents per motorcycle is 67.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. The average age of drivers is 29 and the main contributing factor is non-compliance with the Highway Code (36%). Road traffic accidents remain a major problem in the city of Mbuji-Mayi. Drivers require guidance on the Highway Code before driving. The construction of roads respects the standards, and the road signs are one of the means of fighting against road accidents.
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Jeannoh, K. K. , Jérémie, K. B. , Pauline, K. M. , Guy, S. I. M. , Georges, K. K. , Francklin, K. M. , Sonny, N. T. , Nancy, C. C. , Dédé, K. K. , Joseph, L. K. and Odette, K. M. (2022). Epidemiological Aspects of Road Traffic Accidents by Motorcycle in Mbuji-Mayi, DRC. Open Access Library Journal, 9, e8859. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1108859.
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