Boda-boda rider safety and accident avoidance system.

Abstract

The increased adoption of the boda bodas in Uganda has created employment opportunities to many people in Uganda especially the. youth, thus enabling them meet their standards of living. But this has exponentially contributed to bigger statistics of road accidents in Uganda. This has led to mainly fatality and trauma. The accidents are mainly caused by not wearing helmets, drinking alcoholic substances before operating a motorcycles careless riding. This research is focused on reducing fatality rate, trauma and other effects that arise from bodaboda accidents and also ensure that bodaboda riders avoid them. This happens through using technology by developing an intelligent system to ensure that riders always wear their helmets. The system achieves its objective through the use of' sensors (alcohol sensor, infrared sensor) inside the helmet, GSM and GPS to ensure that boda-boda riders wear helmets at all times before operating a motorcycle and also to alert paramedic relative in case an accident occurs.