 Solution

The second Poisson exposure model allows each location its own baseline accident rate:The last equality is the corner-point constraint. The common after-to-before incidence rate ratio remains $e^{\beta }$. This model is appropriate because the sites can have different background risks; treating those differences as unexplained Poisson variation made the first model fit poorly, with deviance $50.863$ on 14 residual degrees of freedom.

Adding seven location effects to the first fitted model reduces the deviance by $50.863-16.275=34.588$, which is large relative to ${\chi }_7^2$. The supplied sequential analysis of deviance reports a slightly different location contribution because it enters locations before the period indicator. The full model is much better but its deviance $16.275$ on 7 degrees of freedom still gives an approximate goodness-of-fit $p$-value $0.0227$. That suggests residual lack of fit or overdispersion, although sparse accident counts make the asymptotic deviance goodness-of-fit test approximate.