Abstract:
The road accidents became as a serious public hazard in all over the world, especially in the
developing countries. This study focuses on road accidents which mainly damaged and
highly affected the mankind in Sri Lanka. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the trend of
road accident occurred in the Ampara police division in Sri Lanka. As it is a qualitative
research, the primary data have mainly been gathered from unstructured interview, and the
most relevant data have been collected from annual police accident report, literatures, other
accident reports and print media news. The police report covered the period from 2011 to
2016 June. Through the in-depth accidents analysis, the study found that the accidents in the
Ampara police area mostly occurred during the year 2015 significantly, and the trend of
accident has been increasing continuously in the same period due to many reasons such as
recklessness of the driver, negligent of the driver, indiscipline driving, lack of knowledge on
road rules and regulations, a speeding, not wearing the safety belt and helmet, pedestrians
not following road rules, not knowing the meanings of the different road signs markings
signals etc. However, this study need to be extended in future in the study region as well as
in the other parts of the Island in order to explore more or different causes and factors that
determine the ratio of road accident accordingly.
