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Road traffic injuries interchangeably recorded as road traffic crashes, road traffic accidents is a big burden in lowand middle income- countries of which Uganda is part of. The study objectives were to identify types of Road TrafficCrashes, to describe demographic factors of Road Traffic Crash victims in KIU-TH and to describe socioeconomicoutcome of Road Traffic victims in KIU-TH in Bushenyi district. It was a cross sectional study about road trafficinjuiries in patients visiting KIU-TH in Bushenyi District. The study used a questionairre to collect informationfrom 51 paitents at A & E, surgical department of the hospital. The researcher used primary data with both openended and close ended questions. The completed questionairres were coded and entries made into statistical packagefor social sciences. The study established that motorcycle accidents were associated with significant number of roadtraffic injuries. The boda-boda motorcylists contributed a bigger percentage of accidents which was 59%. The mostproductive age group was 15 - 44 years was highly involved in road traffic accidents at 84.3% and the mean age ofroad traffic accident victims was 31 years. Males were more involved in accidents at 82.35% and females at 17.6% .The least affected age groups were 0 – 14 years, 35 – 44 years each with 4%. The married contributed a higherpercentage of 58.82% while the singles at 24.49%. The researcher’s recommendations was that prevention ofaccidents should target people aged 15 – 44 years especially males, boda-boda motorcyclists and then KIU-TH toprovide CT scan services to those with head injuries. Government should provide efficient rescue system especiallyambulance services and universal health insurance scheme for accident victims.