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Abstract
Present paper is an effort to analyse the spatio-temporal distribution of road accidents in Haryana (2006-07 to 2015-16). Roads are the key to the development of an economy. A good road network constitutes the basic infrastructure that accelerates the development process through connectivity and opening up of the backward regions to trade and investment. Here with the development of road network, the number of road accidents have also increased which make it a most horrible and pronounced disaster in India as well as in the state of Haryana. The most prominent feature exhibited by the data is that the total accidents, person killed and injured have increased by approximately 1.5 times during the last two decades. It is also a practise to explain the accident population relationship in terms of Accident Risk. The analysis revealed that only one district falls in very high risk index i.e. Gurgaon and only two districts Jind and Palwal observed low accident risk. Severity index shows the seriousness of an accident and it is defined as the number of person killed per 100 accidents. Severity index is calculated which shows the seriousness of an accident and the index fluctuates in the given time period. The road accident has become most common and fatal disaster of present time.