Analysis of historical accident data to determine accident prone locations and cause of accidents

Abstract

Road traffic accidents causes great distress and destroy the lives of many individuals. Inspite of different attempts to solve this problem, it still resides as a major cause of death. This paper proposes a system to analyse historical accident data and subsequently identify accident-prone areas and their relevant causes via clustering accident location coordinates. This system, once developed, can be used to warn drivers and also to aid fully autonomous automobiles to take precautions at accident-prone areas.