Uma análise da metodologia de registro de acidentes de trânsito em Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

Brazil is considered one of the champions of traffic accidents. This fact is revealed by official statistics that even presenting very few results from what happens in reality, they can offer the ideal base for the actions to reduce the incidence and consequently the accident costs. This number, here in Brazil, reaches a range of US$ 9.6 billion a year. This work presents a study done in Campina Grande city-state of Paraíba where we have seen the existence of organs that could offer information related to these accidents. Nevertheless, these organs are omitted and do not collaborate with the official statistics. It was done an analysis of the information collected from some organs responsible for this register, but a lot of different results were observed. The methodology used and the information gotten were exhaustively analysed but it was verified the lack of systematization of information what makes the process lengthy and tiresome. In conclusion, we can say that the number of traffic accidents in Campina Grande does not show the reality due to the omitted registers. This way, we have in our hands just false results. It is necessary to use new solutions to enable us to have a greater number of organs to register this kind of information as well as to provide a better structure to the researches and to their interpretation. Bringing us an increasing trustful number of information that will show us what really happens to this population.