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Economic growth and population size has stimulated the high demand for transportation in Ethiopia. Since road transport is the dominant mode of transportation system, the afore-cited couple of factors impose pressure in increasing gross vehicle fleet ownership that were reported to be 935,888 in 2018. The Country still has low motorization rate compared with many African countries. As an external effect of the road transport system, Traffic accident in Ethiopia has become a high ranking disaster risk that has resulted with a total accidents of 28,364 in 2018, causing injuries, deaths and property damages amounting ETB 109,882,371.00. In a great stride to tackle the problem, Ethiopia has announced national policy and strategy on disaster risk management carrying a vision to significantly reduce the damages caused by disaster risk by 2023. Sadly, the current situation of road crash accident is rising with time. In taking a pragmatic step to curb the ever-growing injury, fatalities and property damage, policy makers should engage community, business and religious leaders to take a robust action on prevention, mitigation and preparedness. Similarly, in post-crash care, conditions for first responders as pre-hospital care should improve the under equipped facilities and obtain the political support together with involvement of local communities.