Road Accidents in a Himalayan State of India: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Fatality and Severity in Himachal Pradesh

Abstract

Present paper is an effort to analyze the fatality in road accidents and to understand
the different factors responsible for accidents in Himachal Pradesh. The factors have
been studied under four broad categories and occurrence of accidents at different time
periods has been also described. The present analysis also reveals that in urban areas the
majority accidents occurred during 6:00pm-10:00pm and in rural areas 10:00am-2:00pm.
There are number of weather conditions which are responsible for vehicle accidents yet
larger number of accidents occurred in fine conditions because there are more number of
vehicles on the road during that time. Surprisingly more accidents occurred in the open
areas as a result of negligence. It has been also noted that the cars and jeeps was the main
segment of vehicle that was found more often involved the in road accidents.