International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volume 119 No. 15 2018, 175-180

ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version)
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A STUDY ON ROAD ACCIDENTS IN CHENNAI CITY

Kannan. A1, Kala Raja Mohan2, Ganesan Murugesan3
1
Assistant Professor, 2Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Vel Tech,
Avadi.
3
Visage Holdings and Finance Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
1
kansyl1@gmail.com
Abstract:
In spite of many road safety measures and precautions, day by day, the number of accidents
increases every year. There are many reasons for the accidents. The purpose of this study is to
make an analysis on the number of accidents in Chennai city. The study also makes an
investigation on the types of road and the types of vehicle which plays the reason for the
accidents in Chennai during the year 2016. In addition, the study also intends to discuss the
steps to reduce the number of accidents.
Key words: Accidents – Chennai – Causes – Vehicles – Roads.
Introduction:
We often hear of many road accidents in which many people including kids lose their lives
and many gets affected with major and minor injury. There are many reasons for the
accidents. Though there are many precautions given by government and private
organizations, we see the number of accidents in found to be in increasing level. In this paper,
we are trying to make a study on the number of accidents occurring, reasons for the accidents
and the methods to overcome it. Here, we are considering the number of accidents occurring
in the state of Chennai for our consideration.
Data Collected:
Due to the increase in population of the city and to be sophisticated, many uses their own
vehicles for transport. As a result, there is increase in traffic, which in turn makes chance for
accidents sometimes. The data are interpreted with respect to the number of accidents with
fatal, grevious injury, minor injury and non-injury. Table 1 gives the data of the number of
accidents in Chennai city from the year 2006 to the year 2016. Table 2 gives the number of
accidents data based on the types of roads and Table 3 in terms of the types of vehicles.
TABLE 1:

ROAD ACCIDENT DATA IN CHENNAI CITY FROM 2006 TO 2016

Non-
Fata Grevious Minor injury
injury Total
l Injury
Total No. of
YEAR Accidents persons
N.A N.P. N.A N.P.I N.A N.P.I N.A involve
K d
2006 1082 1106 112 128 4336 5208 287 5817 6442
2007 1110 1146 1564 1907 4367 5331 529 7570 8384
2008 859 888 66 72 4296 5060 1602 6823 6020

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2009 582 598 121 139 3504 4123 853 5060 4860
2010 604 621 1470 1749 2227 2664 832 5133 5034
2011 906 929 271 320 4513 5343 876 6566 6592
2012 1367 1401 611 712 6581 7916 1104 9663 10029
2013 1215 1247 741 831 6858 7869 891 9710 9947
2014 1020 1046 1139 1341 6551 7914 755 9465 10301
2015 859 886 2949 3406 3196 3914 324 7328 7320
2016 1155 1183 1888 2227 4162 5122 281 7486 8532
NA : No of Accidents. NPK: No. of persons killed. Source: DGP, Chennai
TABLE 2:

NUMBER OF ROAD ACCIDENTS ACCORDING TO TYPE OF ROADS IN THE YEAR

2016 IN CHENNAI CITY
Non-
Types of Fatal Grevious Injury Minor injury Total
injury
Roads Accidents
N.A N.P.K N.A N.P.I N.A N.P.I N.A
National 214 220 294 360 730 923 68 1306
Highways
State 60 62 86 107 176 225 12 334
Highways
Other Dist. 881 901 1508 1760 3256 3974 201 5846
Roads
Other Village 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roads
Total 1155 1183 1888 2227 4162 5122 281 7486
N A- NO. OF ACCIDENTS. NPK - NO. OFPERSONSKILLED. NPI - NO.
OF PERSONSINJURED
Source: DGP, SCRB, Chennai

TABLE 3:
NUMBER OF ROAD ACCIDENTS ACCORDING TO TYPE OF VEHICLES IN THE
YEAR 2016 IN CHENNAI CITY
Types of Vehicle Fatal Grevious Injury Minor injury Non- Total
injury
Accidents

N.A N.P.K N.A N.P.I N.A N.P.I N.A

GOVT Bus 103 104 72 80 181 259 17 373
PRIVATE Bus 37 39 25 35 80 105 12 154

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Truck / Lorry 173 188 140 168 289 358 81 683

Car /Jeep/ Taxi/ 263 267 572 680 1467 1810 151 2453
Tempo

Two wheelers 454 458 885 1045 1757 2122 8 3104

Three wheelers 37 38 116 130 282 350 5 440

Others 88 89 78 89 106 118 7 279

Total 1155 1183 1888 2227 4162 5122 281 7486

NA-No. of accidents; NPK-No. of persons killed; NPI-No. of persons injured

Source: DGP, SCRB, Chennai
Data interpretation:
Based on the data in Table 1, we find that there is ups and downs in the number of accidents
in the city. The number of persons involved in the accident is almost found to be more than
the number of accidents. With respect to the fatal, grevious and major injury cases, the
number of persons killed is almost greater than the number of accidents. Figure 1 represents
the graphical representation of the number of accidents with respect to fatal, grevious injury,
major injury and non-injury cases during the year 2006-2017.
Table 2, illustrates the number of accidents based on the types of roads such as national
highways, state highways, other district roads and other village roads. There is no accident
found in the village roads. As in table 1 data, table 2 also shows that number of persons killed
is found to be more than the number of accidents.
Table 3, illustrates the number of accidents based on the type of vehicles. From the data given
below, it shows that the number of accidents is more in the case of two wheelers.
Reasons for road accidents:
There are many reasons for accidents. Here we try to list out a few of them:
Not following the traffic rules
Using mobile phones while travel
Wrong usage of indicators
Chatting with others on road without noticing the vehicles
Unexpected crossing of animals

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Drunk and drive

Careless pedestrian crossers
Not using the subways
Opening the right side door of the vehicle to walk out
Precautions to prevent road accidents:
Follow traffic rules
Avoid using mobile phone while driving
Avoid chatting with friends while travel
Carefully observe the road while travel
Educate the people even those who don’t use vehicle
Avoid opening the four wheeler doors on the right hand side
Avoid more number of persons travelling in the vehicles than the number of persons
allotted
Avoid drunk and drive
Pedestrian crossers carefully cross the road
Always open the door of the vehicle from the left side

No. of accidents from 2006-2016 in Chennai

8000
7000
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Fatal Grevious Injury Minor Injury Non Injury

Figure 1: A graphical representation of the number of accidents in Chennai from 2006-2016

based on the injury level.
To overcome
Follow traffic rules, stop mobile usage, never chat with others, neve
Acknowledgement:
We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Tamil Nadu Government website for the
details provided with respect to the accident.
Conclusion:
The number of accidents in Chennai city has been discussed. The causes for accidents and the
precautions for avoiding accidents has also been discussed.

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