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Background: Road traffic crash (RTC) has become a global burden. The world health organization’s (WHO) global report on road traffic safety of 2015 shows that about 1.25 million deaths observed due RTC which means every 24 seconds someone dies on the road and predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. RTC was identified as the leading cause of death especially among young people of 15-29 years, and low and middle-income countries. Attitude of drivers towards road traffic safety (RTS) is one of the most important indicator for RTC which needs due emphasis to tackle this tragedy. Methods: The study was conducted among 398 public transport drivers that selected randomly. Driver Attitude Questionnaire (DAQ) that comprises 16 items was applied to investigate drivers’ attitudes towards RTS with four Point Likert-scales (1-4, refers to totally disagree, disagree, agree and totally agree respectively for positive statements and reverse for negative statements where scale 1 belongs to totally agree). The driver was considered to have positive attitude if agrees/accepts items of positive statements and disagree/against items of negative statements. DAQ assesses attitude of drivers towards RTS with its four domains (Alcohol, close following, overtaking and speeding). Cross tabs and binary logistic regression were applied to determine the association of attitude related variables with occurrence of RTC. A p-value less than 0.05 was declared as statistically significant.

Results: From the total 398 drivers participated on the study, males accounted 394 (99%). The mean age of the respondents was 32.11±9.133 years that range …