Determinación De Las Principales Causas De Accidentes De Tránsito En El Ecuador Desde El 2016 Hasta 2018/Determination of the Main Causes of Transit Accidents in Ecuador Since 2016 Until 2018

Abstract

Los accidentes de tránsito en el Ecuador han causado muchos problemas en el ámbito social, ocupa el segundo lugar en mortandad por accidentes de tránsito en Latinoamérica. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) define un accidente de tránsito como un problema para la salud pública mundial y pueden causar graves consecuencias en las personas y generar altos costos económicos para el país, de allí la necesidad de realizar este estudio. El objetivo de ésta investigación es determinar cuáles son las principales causas que ocasionan los accidentes de tránsito, los datos fueron proporcionados por la Agencia Nacional de Tránsito (ANT) durante los años 2016, 2017 y 2018. La investigación es de tipo cuantitativo, de corte transversal y además un estudio descriptivo, exploratorio e inferencial no experimental. Se realizó inicialmente un estudio de normalidad de las variables de, luego se procedió a emplear pruebas estadísticas no paramétricas tales como Kruskal-Wallis (H-test) y Wilcoxon. Como parte de los resultados se encontró que la causa principal que provocó la mayor cantidad de fallecidos en accidentes de tránsito fue la de conducir desatento a las condiciones de tránsito.
 Traffic accidents in Ecuador have had many problems in the social field, occupies the second place in death and traffic accidents in Latin America. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a traffic accident as a problem for world public health and can cause severe consequences for people and generate high economic costs for the country, hence the need to carry out this study. The objective of this research is to determine which are the leading causes that cause traffic accidents, and the data was provided by the National Traffic Agency (ANT) during the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. The research is quantitative, cross-sectional and also descriptive, exploratory and nonexperimental inferential study. Initially, a normality study of the variables was carried out, then nonparametric statistical tests such as Kruskal-Wallis (H-test) and Wilcoxon were used. As part of the results, it was found that the leading cause that caused the most significant number of deaths in traffic accidents was driving inattentive to traffic conditions.
 Palabras Claves: accidentes de tránsito, Ecuador, causas, mortalidad, consecuencias serias.
 Keywords: traffic accidents, Ecuador, causes, mortality, serious consequences.

Uncovering road traffic crashes typologies using multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), in a low-resource setting

“…The majority of surveyed drivers from the city of Loja agreed that distraction represented the most frequent type of cause, followed by ignoring traffic signs and speeding. These findings are similar to those reported in a recent study published in 2020 [59], in which the main causes of fatal accidents nationwide in Ecuador are driving inattentive to traffic conditions and driving over speed limits. In our study, the most frequent types of RTC were vehicle to vehicle collision, collision with fixed objects or animals, and run-over accident.…”

Analysis and study of the factors involved in the accident rate of vehicles, during the period 2017-2022 in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.

“…Authors such as Barrera et al [16], analyzed the causes of traffic accidents in Ecuador to know the most important ones. As a result, it was found that distracted driving was the main cause of accidents, followed by speeding and, in the case of pedestrians, not walking on safe areas or sidewalks.…”