Road Traffic Fatalities and Accident Risk in Uttarakhand State of India: A Geographical Analysis

By : Santosh Kumari , D.D Sharma , Virender Singh

Page No: 234-247

Abstract
The problem of road traffic accident is increasingly becoming a threat to public health and national development in many developing countries. Road traffic accidents contribute to poverty by causing deaths, injuries, disabilities, grief, and loss of productivity and material damages. It is exhibited from the present study that the number of total accidents has gone up by 1.5 times from 2001 to 2016 in the state of Uttarakhand. Present study is also an attempt to analyze the regional variations among total road accidents in study area from 2001-2016. The accident fatality risk and accident risk has been also calculated to understand the population, road accident deaths and total road accidents relationship.

Authors :
Santosh Kumari : Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, 171005 India.
D.D Sharma : Professor and Chairman, Department of Geography, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla,171005 India.
Virender Singh : Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Himachal Pradesh University, Shima-171005 India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2020.40.02.3