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Road Accidents in India Claimed 415 Lives, Injured 1,286 People Each Day in 2018

December 3, 2019 by saferoads Leave a Comment

The official statistics on road accidents in India for 2018 are out and they continue to reveal the sorry state of vehicular safety. The latest data shows an upward trend – both in terms of accidents and the number of lives lost in the country. The data for 2018 indicates that the country witnessed 467,044 accidents (+0.46%), which claimed 151,417 lives (+2.37%) and injured 469,418 (-0.33%) individuals, which translates into 415 people not returning home each day. It also means that 17 lives were lost and 53 injured every hour across India.

What’s worrying is that despite efforts by industry stakeholders to disseminate safety-related information and create more awareness among motorists and people at large, the overall 2018 road crash statistics have actually gone up over those in 2017, a year in which road accidents and fatalities had reduced over 2016.   

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Date: December 03, 2019

Source: Autocar Professional

Filed Under: Road Safety

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