ARS Analysis Report 

 Major Areas of Accident in Pune.

Times of India Article about  Accidents in Pune

Accidents in Pune – Interpretations and Suggestions :

Over a period of 8 months, starting from 1st June 2009 to 31st Jan 2010, Janwani - an NGO promoted by MCCIA ( with the help of the ARS software, developed for the traffic police dept. by Janwani with the technical support from Indicrants tech) analysed various road accidents in Pune City , from multiple perspectives. The present report is an effort is to look at various matrices and parameters, and provide suggestions/solutions – so that the accidents in the city may be reduced. . The analysis is done by the students of Sadhana Centre for Management and leadership Development.
Facts:
ARS (Accidents Report System) has conducted a survey lately on the number of accidents are taking place in the Education City, Pune. Today in this techno-maniac world where people don’t have time and life has become pretty fast, the number of vehicles are increasing by leaps and bounds so is the number of deadly accidents.
FACTUAL DATA
􀂃 37% of total accidents occur due to Four-Wheelers causing major injuries to the victims. While 33% of total accidents leading to death occur due to Six-Wheelers.
􀂃 Head-on-Collision causes 45% of the total accidents which leads to 44% major and 36% death injury.
􀂃 Research also shows that drivers in the age group of 18-34 are mainly held accountable for 47% of the total accidents.
􀂃 Most of the accidents take place at the crossing, which leads to 37% of the death injuries.
􀂃 48% accidents take place on the double lane roads, causing 45% of major and death injury.
􀂃 46% accidents takes place at the T-Junction leading to 48% of major and death injury.
􀂃 During the peak hours when the traffic is uncontrolled, 71% of the accidents takes place, which leads to 75% of the death and grievous
􀂃 Residential locations are also not far behind, leading to 44% of the total accidents causing 42% of death and major injury.
􀂃 Compared to the highways 75% of the total accidents on the city roads occur which cause 67% of the death injury.
􀂃 Among all the accidents 63% are female pedestrians, while 15% are male pedestrians who die on account of these accidents.
Interpretations & Suggestions:
1. The 1st and foremost interpretation is that accidents are taking place on roads where traffic is unregulated. The traffic signals stop operating after a particular time in the late evening. If the traffic lights could operate till 2am - a certain number of accidents could be avoided;
2. Most of the fatal and grevious accidents are happening during times when people go to the office and return; most accidents take place while the driver tries to cross, diverge or merge lanes. Mid road barricades, strict one ways during these hours could help avert accidents. This suggestion is further accentuated by the fact that most people meeting with accidents fall in working age group ( young office goers);
3. The maximum number of accidents happened because of headon collisions ; maximum number of accidents happen during winters - there is a case of poor visibility during winters accounting for the accidents;
4. Most accidents are happening on single lane roads, and are done by trucks -we could explore prohibiting Trucks from using single lane roads especially in the city areas;
5. A number of fatal and grevious accidents happen to pedestrians. There is a clear case for providing safer foot paths ( may be guarded with barricades) ; also mid road barricades and zerba crossings could really help; Also trucks may be prohibited from entering into certain residential areas;
6. I have come across a number of T junctions without signals ( and understandably so – it’s a pretty simple road to take). However data suggests that we could prevent accidents by monitoring the T junctions ( through Signals or traffic police);
7. Public transport ( Buses ) are much safer as compared to private ( Bikes, Scooters and cars);
8. Hit and Run cases account for a disturbing number of cases. This is a very dicey matter to deal with;