Detailed Analysis of Road Accidents on Nh-44 from Phagwara to Jalandhar

Abstract

In this fast developing country India the vehicle registration is going high at fast speed with the increase in population and with the increase in economy as well and there is no cap on bank loans from the government to decrease the vehicle registrations. Simple reason is as the number of motor vehicles increase the increase in accidents are common to happen as these two are directly proportional to each other. The contemporary study provide the scale and numerous proportions of road accident in India. The investigation regards this study will support to build attentiveness, strategies and assist in informed decision making on road safety and root of accidents. The deep level investigation of black spots (where extreme road accidents occur) in the region of 23 km of Jalandhar –Phagwara and other imperfections like unevenness, lack of rumble strips and dreadful conditions in road superficials and deficiency of engineering in design parameters of public road highway from that we can interpret the reason of accidents. The region on which the investigation is done is from Phagwara to Jalandhar that is of having distance of 23.1 km with high traffic volume all time with great number of accidents as it is corridor to Indian state Jammu and Kashmir and rest of Punjab. The investigation was deep or micro level so that we could get root cause for accidents to be analysed which involves the pavement design considerations, Vehicle characteristics, Driver characteristics and lastly Environment factor which is essential these days.