Traffic accidents in Jataí (GO): na analysis oh the period from 2013 to 2015

Abstract

Traffic accidents are grievances and it doesn’t choose social class, race, gender or age group. This disturbance is present in all cities, but in different scales, including in the city of Jataí, located in the Goiás Southwest. Thus, with the objective of to know the characteristics of the accidents occurred in the city of Jataí in the period between 2013 and 2015,the present study was based on data provided by the Municipal Superintendence of Traffic and the Department of Information Technology of the Health (DITH). The traffic accidents in Jataí, for the period analyzed, have a higher occurrence on Saturdays and in the afternoon period. Men who are between 31 and 40 years of age are those most involved in these accidents. These data corroborate with the averages of other Brazilian cities