Predicting Vehicle Accidents with Machine Learning

Road accidents constitute a major problem in our societies around the world. The World Health Organization(WHO) estimated that 1.25 million deaths were related to road traffic injuries in the year 2010. For the year 2016, the USA alone had recorded 37, 461 motor vehicle crash-related deaths, averaging around 102 people per day. In Europe, the statistics also indicate that each minute, there are 50 road deaths recorded in the year 2017. Can machine learning help us understand the causes and the factors that affect car crash severity?