Road accidents have remained one of many greatest causes of unnatural deaths in India, and each passing yr the variety of lives misplaced on the roads throughout the nation is barely rising.

Despite the COVID-19 lockdown which noticed the nation coming to a standstill, in 2020 India recorded 1.2 lakh circumstances of “deaths due to negligence relating to road accidents”

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In different phrases, 328 persons are shedding their lives day by day on common, in keeping with authorities knowledge.

Though the 1.2 lakh loss of life in 2020 was lower than the fatalities within the pre-pandemic yr which noticed 1.36 lakh lived being misplaced on the roads, the numbers are alarming because the nation was below full lockdown from March 25 to May 31 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, throughout which the motion in public area was “very limited”.

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As many as 3.92 lakh lives have been misplaced in three years in deaths as a result of negligence associated to highway accidents, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) revealed in its annual ‘Crime India’ report for 2020. While 1.2 lakh deaths have been recorded in 2020, the figures stood at 1.36 lakh in 2019 and 1.35 lakh in 2018, the information present.

The nation logged 1.35 lakh circumstances of “hit and run” since 2018, the report of the NCRB, which capabilities below the Union Home Ministry, confirmed. In 2020 alone, there have been 41,196 circumstances of “hit and run”, whereas there have been 47,504 such circumstances in 2019 and 47,028 in 2018, the report stated. On a median, there have been 112 circumstances of “hit and run” reported throughout the nation day by day up to now yr, in keeping with the information. The circumstances of inflicting “hurt” by rash or negligent driving on public means stood at 1.30 lakh in 2020.

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Rail accidents

Meanwhile, 52 circumstances of deaths as a result of negligence associated to rail accidents have been recorded throughout the nation in 2020; 55 such circumstances in 2019 and 35 in 2018, the report confirmed.

Earlier this yr, Union minister Nitin Gadkari had stated that the highway accident state of affairs in India was extra “dangerous than COVID-19 pandemic”.

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In February 2021, Gadkari had stated there could possibly be a saving of Rs 90 lakh per individual by stopping deaths and lowering accidents to minor ones in such incidents.

A World Bank report ‘Traffic Crash Injuries And Disabilities: The Burden on India Society’ stated that India accounts for the best variety of highway accidents globally, with 1.5 lakh individuals being killed and greater than 4.5 lakh crippled yearly in 4.5 lakh highway accidents with losses amounting to three.14 per cent of the GDP.