ANALYSIS OF ROAD ACCIDENTS

Introduction

Road Accidents: when a vehicle collides with another

vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree or utility pole.

Factors that can contribute to road accidents, includes

vehicle design/make speed of operation road design environment/ daytime driver skill and/or impairment age, sex and driver behaviour etc.

Data Collection & Preprocessing

Data Collection: Large data files of Police accident

reports and Transport Accident Commission claims were obtained

Data Pre-processing:
Data

Cleaning: to clean the data by filling in missing values, smoothening noisy data, identifying and removing outliers ex. rail accidents removed Data Integration: Integrated multiple files - road accident details, people involved in the accident and demographic details Data Reduction: Only fatality cases considered;

Data Analysis
Age group of 16-25yrs is most often involved in road accidents The number of crashes increased on weekends
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Data Analysis
No. of accidents do not increase with the speed of the vehicle
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Factors affecting Accident

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Time Series Analysis

No. of accidents increases during late evening and late night
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No. of accidents increases during mid of the year

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Dependency Network
Drugs and Drinking directly predicts the fatalities

Dependency Network
Drugs predicts fatalities Drinking and drugs predicts Injury severity

Cluster Analysis
Six different clusters
Population (All) Cluster 1 Cluster 2 61787 26730 14705 57.85 44.57 67.42 22.42 28.57 16.21

Variables Size AGE AGE

States Mean Deviatio n Not Applicab le missing 1980 4170 3280 1730 370 1670

CITY CITY CITY CITY CITY CITY CITY CITY

32905 17317 512 452 434 372 344 314

0.558 0.273 0.006 0.005 0.006 0.005 0.004 0.005

0.458 0.312 0.013 0.012 0.008 0.007 0.008 0.006

Conclusion

Texas, California and Florida are the three most unsafe places Cluster1 has highest number of accidents where as cluster 4 has the lowest number of accidents Although drugs and drinking was not a major factor of accident on weekdays but the no. of accidents involving drinking and drugs increased during the weekends. Majority of the accidents occur on the highways