accidents near to religious places and educational institutions (spatial). The monsoon and non monsoon
periods are considered as temporal variables since these are the two major seasons in the state that could
affect the traffic and may influence the chances of accidents. Similarly two major institutions viz,
religious places and educational institutions are considered separately under spatial variables due to the
association of large number of people with these point features. Evaluation of basic characteristics of the
accident data sets indicates that among the total number of accidents (1468), there exists a temporal
partition as monsoon (702) and non-monsoon (766); and a spatial association to educational institution
(820) and religious places (333).