analysis of road accidents national highway-5
A.S.kanagalakshmi,M.dinesh,M.saikrishna raju,Jishar jaffry,Syed Ashish basha
Published in International Journal of Advanced Research in Civil,Structural,Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Developing
ISSN: 2320-723X Impact Factor:1.7 Volume:2 Issue:2 Year: 09 April,2016 Pages:194-202
Abstract
Accidents are not natural but they are caused is a common cliche in the area of traffic safety. Thus, if accidents are caused by some, surely the ones responsible are could be identified and appropriate remedial measures developed and implemented to the extent feasible. Analysis of previous data indicates that 66 of the accidents occur due to human error and 33 due to road parameters such as road and vehicle interaction, other road user and environmental factors. India has a road network of 3.3 million km consisting of National Highway NH, State Highway SH, Major District Roads MDR and Other District roads ODR. National Highways constitute 2 of the total road length and carries more than 40 of passenger traffic and 85 of goods traffic has registered more accidents accounting for 20, as compared to other roads. This paper lays emphasis on accident studies on the 40 km long National Highway 5 section between MOOLAKADAI, in state of tamil nadu and TADA, in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India. The Institute has undertaken a study on NH5 between Moolakadai to Tada during the year 2003 and it runs through urban, semi urban and rural areas. The accident data for the last five years was collected form the concerned police station and analyzed there after. The data revealed that 64 deaths and 373 injuries were recorded between January to December, 2002 and 20 deaths, 82 injuries were recorded between January to June, 2003. The analysis of the data from safety point of view indicated that the vehicle drivers are the single major factor responsible for the accidents as they fail to perceive the situation ahead because of poor reflexes, fatigue, inexperience or being under the influence of intoxicants. The accident data for the section indicated that two wheelers are the ones who mainly suffer the fatalities and major injuries, which is around 35 followed by trucks 23 involved in accidents. The reasons for the accidents can be attributed to the driver, improper design of pedestrian crossing, frequent median openings, and lack of enforcement to control wrong side movements. There are however, other factors, which contribute directly or indirectly to the accidents include road, vehicle, road user and environmental factors. From the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that this National Highway section needs improvement from safety point of view. A large number of accidents have been occurring over such a small section of 40 km length. Proper traffic guidance and control system to guide road users ensuring safe movement of vehicles has been recommended and some of the facilities such as pedestrian crossings and median openings, acceleration and deceleration lanes were redesigned in order to improve the safety of the road and minimize the accidents.
Kewords
road Accident, Safety, National Highway
Reference
1.NATIONAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY OF INDIA ,NHAI 2.TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT OF INDIA 3.TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT OF INDIA 4.DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN POLICE 5.MUNICIPAL CRPORATION OF TAMIL NADU 6.THE HINDU
