AN EXAMINATION OF COMMERCIAL MOTORCYCLE OPERATORS’ AWARENESS OF ROAD SAFETY RULES IN OGBOMOSO OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Commercial motorcycle operators’ awareness of road safety rules in Ogbomoso Oyo State was examined in this work. This is due to the worrisome high rate of accident occurrence involving commercial motor cycle operators in the study area. It appraised relationship between level of education of commercial motor cycle operators and awareness of road safety rules and enumerated view of commercial motor cycle operator on road safety rules. Ogbomoso South Local government Area of Oyo State was the study area. Also, seven hundred and thirty-one commercial motor cycle operators were randomly selected and questionnaire administration was used. ANOVA, regression analysis and percentage frequency were employed. The study uncovered the fact that the entire commercial motor cycle operators in the study area were male, mostly secondary school dropout and low income earners. It further discovered that correlation coefficient R² was 0.72, meaning that degree of explanation of independent variables; over taken at the right hand side is wrong, over loading is dangerous, motor cycle without side mirror is wrong, under age driving is wrong and following vehicle bumper to bumper is wrong’ in the dependent variable; education level was 71.9 percent. Likewise, F = 374.205 at P = 0.000 lower than 0.05 level of statistical significance, statistically significant relationship existed between level of education of commercial motor cycle operators and awareness of road safety rules. Lastly, it affirmed that awareness of the commercial motor cycle operators to road safety rules in the study area was low. Hence, recommendation that educating the commercial motor cycle operator should be given uppermost attention.

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Ogundele Ayodele Victor, & Oluwasanmi Adewole. (2023). An Examination of Commercial Motorcycle Operators' Awareness of Road Safety Rules in Ogbomoso Oyo State, Nigeria. Research and Reviews: Journal of Environmental Sciences, 5(3), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8318788