International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Causes of accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway Arkesh Prabhakar Khetade#1 , Tanish Ramesh Naik*2, Suhas Rajendra Nangare#3 , Chetan Sunil Navandar#4, Prof. Khultej Gurav Department of B.E in Civil Engineering MGM’s college of enginnering and technology,Navi-mumbai ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
ABSTRACT
The expressway had witnessed a 43% reduction in the roadcrash fatalities, from 151 fatalities in 2016 to 86 fatalities until December 31, 2019. In 2021, the expressway reported 66 fatalities in 63 accidents, according to data collated by the Save Life Foundation.
Transportation on road is more year by year,but the rate of accident also increase with it. India is well devlopinf countries and here rate of road accidents are high and also recording the accident specifically as per month, time, age and gender and also the types in that road traffic accident is on the top and here also thing to mention is day time accidents are more than the night time accidents road traffic accidents claim over a million lives every year in the world. As per World Health Organization (WHO), it is one of the leading causes of death. India, a rapidly developing country with an expanding economy, has its issues regarding road traffic accidents.
As many as 91 people lost their lives while 175 others were injured in a total of 352 road accidents on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in the year 2019, as per the data prepared by the Maharashtra Highway Police.
Records from 2018 show that there is one death every 3.05 minutes because of road accidents. In 2020, there were around 138 thousand deaths due to road accidents in India.
During the same period, a total of 32,876 road accidents had occurred in Maharashtra, killing 12565 people and seriously injuring 19175 others. A total of 9723 people escaped with minor injuries. As compared to 2018, the number of accidents and fatalities on the six-lane expressway went down in the year 2019, it stated.
Planning, working upon it, various ideas road infrastructure should give priority to the safety and comfort of road users. Thus, this paper aims to tackle this issue and to explore the main factors contributing to the increase in car accidents rate.
In the year 2018, a total of 359 accidents occurred on the expressway, killing 114 people while 174 people were grievously injured, it stated. A senior highway police officer blamed the high speed of vehicles as one of the major reasons for accidents on the 95- km highway in 2019.
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 General The term accident has been defined as an occurrence in a sequence of events that usually produces unintended injury, death, or property damage. Today accidents are among the leading causes of death. As per government data road accidents are the leading cause of hospitalization deaths and disabilities in the country. On average, about 1,50,000 people perish due to road accidents in India annually. 1.2 Historical devlopment
1.3 Aim
PUNE The number of fatalities on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway has seen an overall reduction of 52% since 2016, when the ‘Zero-Fatality Corridor” project, a joint initiative of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Limited (MSRDC), Maharashtra Highway Police, Mahindra & Mahindra, and Save life Foundation was launched to reduce road fatalities.
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