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National Highway No. 44 is the main highway connecting the northern states with Tamil Nadu. It is a 3745 km long National Highway connecting the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telungana and Andhra Pradesh with Tamil Nadu. The Dharmapuri-Salem road has almost 9.8 Kilometers of stretch comes under completely hillyterrain on NH-44 starting from Toppur to Toppur Toll Plazza. This road is maintained by L&T Thoppur Toll Plaza in Dharmapuri District. An average of 35,000 to 40,000 vehicles pass through this road daily and 75% of these vehicles are heavy vehicle s. The unavoidable passage of this road is a dangerous four-lane road from Kattamedu to thoppur on Dharmapuri Salem Road and is a pothole which causes a large number of accidents in this passage, thus causing more casualties. The main reasons were found to be rash driving, narrow curves, T junction, Steep gradient, poor visibility, Steep slope and sharp curves and heavier traffic. The stopping sight distance is also not enough at critical points on the permissible limit of speed. So, in this this research, we have gathered accident information from thoppur police station and find causes of accident and suggest remedial measure on those accidents.