Road Accident Case Study

ABSTRACT

Road accidents are critical and major problems in the economical country. In the developing country, heavy vehicle drivers are irresponsible for his/her driving behaviour. Due to this irresponsibility of driver, accident ratio increases in competitive country. An estimated 1.5 lakhs people lose their lives in road traffic crashes every year, and another 2 to 5 lakhs are injured. Indian government declared that India has indefinite death during road traffic accident every year. According to the latest report on country's road accidents and deaths, over 52,000 people died in crashes caused due to overtaking and 'diverging' during 2015. These accidents are also directly linked to speeding. Unfortunately, our drivers have no sense of

India has the dubious distinction of reporting highest number of road fatalities in the world and the government says the prime reason is “driver’s fault”. During the year 2009, there were around 490,000 road accidents, which resulted in the deaths of 125,660 people and injured more than five hundred thousand persons in India.... Driver's fault is the prime reason, A.K. Upadhyaya, Secretary, Road Transport and Highways. The official number of deaths increased in 2010 to 130,000. The proportion of injuries to deaths remained unchanged at

Although there are laws to prevent road accidents decrease in the number of fatalities is not to be seen. With the major persons being large sized vehicles such as trucks, buses or mini-buses, (bus & luxurious buses 33%, trucks 27%) and in fatal accidents their shares are 35%and 29% respectively. This group of vehicles is particularly over involved in pedestrian accidents accounting for about 68 percent (bus/minibus 38%, trucks 30%). For the case of death due to road traffic accident, the share of buses and trucks are nearly 70 percent (bus/minibus 36%, trucks 24%) and for pedestrian about 72 percent (bus/minibus 40%,