A DEEP LEVEL INVESTIGATION OF ROAD ACCIDENTS ON PHAGWARA TO JALANDHAR NH-1

Abstract

The road mishaps are the major problem for the pathetic countries like India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh due to ignorance and now becoming a mass health problem. India is suffering
from huge loss of deaths specially youth in the age frame of 16-30 due to road
accidents .road accidents are the major human error issue. It is involvement of different
causes like human physiological or psychological ,vehicular characteristics,
environmental effects and road characteristics ahead or following accident or even during
the road accidents, several modified and modern techniques and methodologies are
important for minimizing the accidents upto large certain degree. The Administration
single-handedly cannot block road misfortunes difficulties. There is necessity of energetic
participants to endorse execution of road wellbeing measures. The association of different
organizations like traffic police, health sectors and other government and private agencies
for giving attention to road safety is necessary. The valuable data is used which is taken
from different agencies like hospitals, police sources and other shopkeepers those who
act as eye witness during the accidents in this region of 23 km of Jalandhar –Phagwara. ),
Once accumulating the records, the deep level investigation of blackspots (where extreme
road accidents occur) 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.