Table 5. Description of physical environment related characteristics of road traffic accident victims, June-August 2018, Tirunesh Beijing Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Physical environment related characteristics | Non-Severe injury | Severe injury | Frequency (n = 164) | Percent |
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Time of accident | ||||
00:00–07:59 | 16 | 7 | 23 | 14.0 |
08:00–15:59 | 47 | 17 | 64 | 39.0 |
16:00–23:59 | 41 | 36 | 77 | 47.0 |
Lighting condition | ||||
Daylight | 52 | 31 | 83 | 50.6 |
Dark with no streetlight | 27 | 12 | 39 | 23.8 |
Dark with streetlight | 8 | 10 | 18 | 11.0 |
Dusk/dawn | 17 | 7 | 24 | 14.6 |
Weather condition | ||||
Raining | 11 | 7 | 18 | 11.0 |
Not raining | 93 | 53 | 146 | 89.0 |