Road Crash Analysis: A Case study between Dahod to Godhra and Remedial Measures

Abstract

The road Crash deaths and injuries are global phenomenon, but more severe is the situation in mixed traffic
conditions, as prevailing on Indian multilane highways. Owing to the likely under-reporting of crash, the real situation
is likely to be much worse. Road safety has become a growing concern for the public, in general and highway
professionals, in particular, as road crashes are a major source of loss of life. For this paper stretch of NH-59 has been
selected from Dahod to Godhra. The crash data was collected for last seven years, 2008 -2014 from the police stations.
The year wise distribution shows that in the 2010 about 19.02% maximum crash take place. The collected data were
analyzed to evaluate the effect of influencing parameters on crash rate. Heavy vehicles like truck are involved in
maximum number of crashes on the selected stretch. It is estimated that a truck is in volved in almost 32% crashes
followed by two – wheelers 23% and car 21%. There is estimated that in month wise maximum crashes occurred in
March and April. In time wise higher crashes occurred between 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm.. Traffic volume count and road
inventory survey carried out at NH-59 on selected stretch