How do the main contributing factors for accidents vary over the years?
0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 Backing Unsafely Driver Inattention/Distraction Driver Inexperience Failure to Yield Right-of-Way Fatigued/Drowsy Following Too Closely Lost Consciousness Other Vehicular Traffic Control Disregarded Turning Improperly Feb, 2013 Jan, 2018 Feb, 2013 Observations from the data:
Driver inattention / distraction has been the leading cause of accidents over the years. Accidents due to Driver Inattention / Distraction has been increasing over the years. May-Aug 2016 have very little accidents probably due to missing data collection The top contributing factors leading to accidents have approximately the same proportion over time. The top 10 reasons for accidents seem to increase over the years.
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Created by Aakanksha Joshi, Adarsh Chavakula, Harsheel Soin and Deepak Maran for the course STATGR5702: Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization at Columbia University in the City of New York (Spring 2018)