Abstract

Road traffic injuries interchangeably recorded as road traffic crashes, road traffic accidents is a big burden in low
and middle income- countries of which Uganda is part of. The study objectives were to identify types of Road Traffic
Crashes, to describe demographic factors of Road Traffic Crash victims in KIU-TH and to describe socioeconomic
outcome of Road Traffic victims in KIU-TH in Bushenyi district. It was a cross sectional study about road traffic
injuiries in patients visiting KIU-TH in Bushenyi District. The study used a questionairre to collect information
from 51 paitents at A & E, surgical department of the hospital. The researcher used primary data with both open
ended and close ended questions. The completed questionairres were coded and entries made into statistical package
for social sciences. The study established that motorcycle accidents were associated with significant number of road
traffic injuries. The boda-boda motorcylists contributed a bigger percentage of accidents which was 59%. The most
productive age group was 15 - 44 years was highly involved in road traffic accidents at 84.3% and the mean age of
road traffic accident victims was 31 years. Males were more involved in accidents at 82.35% and females at 17.6% .
The least affected age groups were 0 – 14 years, 35 – 44 years each with 4%. The married contributed a higher
percentage of 58.82% while the singles at 24.49%. The researcher’s recommendations was that prevention of
accidents should target people aged 15 – 44 years especially males, boda-boda motorcyclists and then KIU-TH to
provide CT scan services to those with head injuries. Government should provide efficient rescue system especially
ambulance services and universal health insurance scheme for accident victims.