Características de los accidentes de tránsito ocurridos en la provincia del Azuay durante el periodo, 2020 – 2021

Background: Traffic accidents represent a public health problem that is increasing. In Ecuador this problem arises daily. In 2020, a total of 14,690 victims of traffic accidents were registered. Objective: Characterize the traffic accidents that occurred in the province of Azuay during the period 2020-2021. Methods: Observational study - descriptive cross-sectional and retrospective. We worked with information from a public database of the National Transit Agency, which was collected in a data record sheet created by the author. The analysis was carried out with the SPSS v26 program, where, according to the nature of the variables, frequency and percentage values were presented. Results: Of the 1556 traffic accidents, 90.68% of accident victims belong to the male sex; Of these accidents, 59.82% were mild severity. The majority of accidents occurred in Cuenca (62.15%), by automobile (23.59%), due to a side collision (21.14%), in the month of October (10.8%). Of the deceased individuals, 94.87% are men, in an unidentified vehicle (39.10%), in January (16.67%) and due to loss of track (23.08%). The most recurrent probable cause is driving inattentive to traffic conditions (33.7%). Conclusions: The male sex was mostly involved in the accidents, also among the deceased. The most probable cause of accidents was driving inattentive to traffic conditions and the vehicle that was most related was the automobile.