Aldina Mesic, Barclay Stewart, Irene Opoku, Bradley H Wagenaar, Bilal Andoh Mohammed, Sulemana Abdul Matinue, Manal Jmaileh, James Damsere-Derry, Adam Gyedu, Charles Mock, Angela Kitali, Daniel Hardy Wuaku, Martin Owusu Afram, Caryl Feldacker
Road traffic collisions disproportionately impact Ghana and other low- and middle-income countries. This study explored road user perspectives regarding the magnitude, contributing factors, and potential solutions to road traffic collisions, injuries, and deaths. We designed a qualitative study of 24 in-depth interviews with 14 vulnerable road users (pedestrians, occupants of powered 2- and 3-wheelers, cyclists) and ten non-vulnerable road users in four high-risk areas in November 2022. We used a mixed deductive (direct content analysis) and inductive (interpretive phenomenological analysis) approach...
2024: PloS One