Analysis And Management Of Road Accident
[A CASE STUDY ILORIN- OMU ARAN ROAD KWARA STATE]

CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
3.0    DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
Data for the study were mainly obtained from police accident records and were complemented with data from research reports and articles, and national statistical abstracts, and newspapers. The author reviewed the statistics for the years 1970 to 2001, disaggregated by administrative councils. The records contained information on crash severity (either fatal, serious, or minor), categories of road users affected, vehicles involved, and causes of crashes (either human error, vehicle defect, or otherwise), date, and traffic environment as judged by the investigating officers. Also, information on monthly variation of road traffic accidents was collected from Kwara State (FRSC) Federal Road Safety Commission.
The harmonic analysis was used to estimate the contributions of particular bands of frequencies to the overall variance in terms of a fluctuating time series. However, the justification for choosing Ilorin-Omu-Aran Road, Kwara State for this study lies in the fact that they carry more than fifty (50%) percent of the vehicular traffic in Kwara State (Atubi, 2007)
The reported road mishaps in Kwara State from 2010-2013 is as shown in Table 1. As revealed in the Table I, total number of reported road traffic accidents for the period of study. However, the occurrence of road traffic accidents in Kwara State varied both in time as well as in space. For instance, the spatial pattern of the accident revealed in table 1 shows that Ilorin-Omu-Aran Road, Kwara State recorded the highest number of road traffic accident among the sixteen (16) Local Governments in Kwara State.
According to police officer report on road accident from 2003-2004 the sum of accident data for the period are presented accordingly, notifying and stipulating how fatal, serious or minor is it. From the data we were able to deduce the specific, of accident rate range for each period per year is determined. From the collation of the data, the importance of the outcome of this each accident inflicts a burden on the states. This is a great concern to every Nigerian over the past decade and the question that rapidly ring in every one’s mind are
i.    What can be done to these rapid and consistence accident in order to improve road safety situation and the survival of the able bodies, youthful and skilled man and power of the nation?
ii.    What are the spatial pattern and causes of traffic accident in Nigeria?
Attention should be focused on the drivers, driver must see themselves as part of professional body and set up minimum standard towards illegimate opportunist, the unqualified, and fake and drug addicted drivers slaughtering on the highway.