ACCIDENTS IN HAVERI

Year	Total cases	Total No of accidental deaths	Place of occurrence (%)			Vehicle involved (%)
			NH-4	State Highways	Other Roads	Heavy Four wheelers	Light Three & Four wheelers	Motor Cycle	Other Vehicles
2009	204	220	33.5	16.5	50	31	23	22	24
2010	192	208	47	8	45	38	27	26	9
2011	173	201	44	7.5	49.5	28	32	27	13
2012	75	81	33	9	58	30	28	30	12

1. In almost all motorcycle accidents, bike driver died due to head injury. Life could have been saved if the driver would have used helmet.
2. Many of the tractor drivers are either novice or do not have much experience in driving. They do not pay attention while turning or road crossing.
3. On NH4, most of the accidents occurred due to over speeding, drunken driving, driving on the wrong direction, pedestrian crossing the road without precaution, bullock carts in the night time, parking trucks on the road during night without indicator or other precaution etc.
4. To avoid accidents in night time Tractor/bullock cart owners are advised to have proper reflective sheeting or indicators on their vehicle/cart.
5. To infuse respect for traffic rules and safe driving, Haveri district police have booked 17,897 traffic rule violation cases in year 2009, 25,701 cases in 2010, 29,854 cases in 2011 and 12,200 cases in current year so far.