Introduction
Road and traffic accidents (RTA) are one of the important
problems in India. MORTH [1] mentioned in its report that
every year there are 0.4 million accidents reported in India,
which makes India a country with large accident rate. This
report shows that there is a negative trend of accidents from
2012 to 2013; however, as accidents are unpredictable and
can occur in any type of situation, there is no guarantee that
this trend will sustain in future also. Therefore, the identification
of different geographical locations where most of
the accidents have occurred and determining the various
characteristics related to road accidents at these locations
will help to understand the different circumstances of
accident occurrence. Kannov and Janson [2] stated that
systematic relationship between accident frequency and
other variables such as geometry of road, road side