Dynamics and Outcomes of Accidents along the Triangle of Death in Cameroon
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Abstract
Road safety is an issue of preoccupation in several developing countries including Cameroon where the rate of road accidents per 100,000 inhabitants is 32.6% with human lives and property lost on daily basis.The loss of human lives and property damage present potential socio-economic challenges, particularly in terms of nation-building and development needs.The upsurge of road accidents in Cameroon has raised worrying concerns about road safety and sustainable transportation from the government and other development actors involved in tackling the problem.This paper draws on field data and studies conducted in Cameroon to assess the dynamics and outcomes of accidents along National Road N 0 3 (NR), National Road N 0 4, and National Road N 0 5 in Cameroon.The methodology used primary and secondary sources of data on transportation studies in Cameroon, Africa and the world.Primary sources also involved the employment of questionnaires and field survey used to ascertain the realities along the roads.The results revealed that the states of the roads are deplorable owing to ill traffic engineering and road maintenance amongst others.The findings evince that 70% of the road accidents in Cameroon occur along National road 3, 4 and 5, with 50% registered along the Douala-Yaounde road axis.Also, these accidents manifest as head-on collisions, rear-end collisions, sideswipes, roll-overs and multiple-collisions, involving death of road users and a wide range of property damaged.With regard to death, 2029 lives have been lost with 305 (15%), 707 (35%) and 1017 (50%) recorded along NR5, NR 4 and NR 3 respectively.The toll on injuries is also alarming as over 5524 people have been injured, leading to the appellation "The Triangle of Death".The study further reveals that given the occurrence of road accidents and the reactive, mistimed policies, redressing the thorny situation is challenging for Cameroon.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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