Sunday, 13 Oct, 2024
By: Arshi Qureshi
According to NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) latest report - compared to 2020, the number of road accidents rose by 17% in 2021 - showing a rise in the rate of deaths per 1,000 vehicles in India.
Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons and a successful businessman, was killed in a car crash on Sunday in the Palghar region of Maharashtra.
Mistry along with three other passengers were travelling from Udwada in Gujarat to Mumbai when the accident took place. According to witnesses, the car hit the road divider while travelling at a high rate of speed in an attempt to pass another vehicle.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also offered his condolences and called it “shocking.”
The latest car crash has once again raised a lot of questions on road accidents in India. In India, traffic accidents are a major cause of annual fatalities, injuries, and property damage.
In 2021, Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways had said that “road accidents are more serious than the covid-19 pandemic."
We'll examine data on road accidents in India over the last four years.
According to NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) latest report - compared to 2020, the number of road accidents rose by 17% in 2021 - showing a rise in the rate of deaths per 1,000 vehicles in India.
A maximum number of cases were reported in Tamil Nadu.
In 2021 - 1,55,622 people were killed in road accident cases, up from 1,33,201 accident cases in 2020.
I4.03 lakh road accidents were reported - up from 3.54 lakh from the previous year. Over half of all fatalities—87,000—were caused by speeding, while 42,000 were blamed on reckless and unsafe driving, according to the NCRB report.
The number of people killed in car crashes has risen by 16.8%. (from 1,33,201 in 2020 to 1,55,622 in 2021). According to observations, the number of fatalities per 1,000 cars rose from 0.45 in 2020 to 0.53 in 2021.
Two-wheelers were involved in the most fatal road accidents in 2021 (69,240 fatalities), making up 44.5% of all deaths on the road, followed by cars (23,531 fatalities; 15.1%) and trucks/lorries (14,622 fatalities; 9.4%).
The majority of two-wheeler-related killings were reported in Tamil Nadu (8,259 fatalities) and Uttar Pradesh (7,429 fatalities), accounting for 11.9% and 10.3% of all two-wheeler-related fatalities, respectively.
However, there were a lot fewer accidents in 2021 than there were in 2019, when there were 4.37 lakh reported accidents and 1.54 lakh fatalities.
Two-wheelers (58,129 fatalities) have contributed 43.6% of all fatal road accidents in 2020, followed by cars (17,538 fatalities) (13.2%) and trucks/lorries (16,993 fatalities) (12.8%).
Between 2020 and 2021, Tamil Nadu reported the highest increase in the number of traffic accident cases (from 46,443 to 57,090), followed by Madhya Pradesh (from 43,360 to 49,493), Uttar Pradesh (from 30,593 to 36,509).
In 2018 - 1,52,780 people were killed in road accidents - out of 4,45,500 lakh accidents were reported.
