Accident Analysis and Prediction of Model on National Highways

India is a developing country and safety of road is still in a premature stage. Accident severity is increasing randomly day by day due to increasing in number of vehicle. Accident leads to disablement, death, damage to health and property, social suffering and general degradation of environment. The road accident situation in India is alarming. Records show that there is one death at every 2.75 minutes because of road accidents. The high accident rate is largely attributed to the inadequacy of the highways and other main roads to meet the traffic demands, road user behavior, vehicle defects, poor road geometrics and visibility. Road accidents inflict heavy economic loss to the country. Road Safety is necessary to reduce accident involving both human and vehicles there by making the road more safe and user friendly to traffic.

NH-10 is one of the major connectivity from Delhi to fazilka which caters to the need of transportation of light goods to heavy goods and passengers. Study area was undertaken on road NH-10 from Hansi to Army cant with stretch Km 146/0 to Km 158/0 in Haryana state. The study stretch is a major connectivity to no of heavy industries like, Jindal steel, Ravindra pipes, HP cotton textile, DPS school, Vidya Devi Jindal public school, kv and army school and many more small scale industries. The no of accidents is rising up every year due to increase in number of vehicles. The location in a roadway where the traffic accident often occurs is called a black spot. The accident data is analyzed using accident frequency and severity index method. The safety deficiencies were detected to minimize accidents and save the road users. The deficiencies along with the measures for further improvement have been presented in this paper.