The Madhya Pradesh bus crash shows that the accident pandemic is not waning
India’s Road Safety Month, launched on January 18 as an extended form of the annual Road Safety Week for greater impact, has concluded with a bus accident in Madhya Pradesh that has claimed 51 lives. The victims, including many young people reportedly travelling to Satna and Rewa to take a government recruitment examination, were trapped within the bus as it plunged into a swollen canal. One of many ghastly mishaps that have occurred after the COVID-19 lockdown, it lends grist to the view that the country, with the world’s worst record on road safety, cannot get its act together any time soon. India has, according to the just-released World Bank-commissioned report, Traffic Crash Injuries and Disabilities, 1% of the world’s vehicles but 11% of all road accident deaths; the Union Transport Ministry put the number of dead in 2019 at 1,51,113, and injured at 4,51,361. Those who suffer the most are from l
India tops the world with 11% of global death in road accidents: World Bank report
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Last Updated: Feb 14, 2021, 12:57 PM IST
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Synopsis India tops the world in road crash deaths and injuries. It has 1 per cent of the world s vehicles but accounts for 11 per cent of all road crash deaths, witnessing 53 road crashes every hour; killing 1 person every 4 minutes, the report said.
In the last decade, 13 lakh people died and another 50 lakh got injured on Indian roads, it said.
New Delhi: With just 1 per cent of the world s vehicles, India accounts for 11 per cent of the global death in road accidents, the highest in the world, according to a report by the World Bank. The country accounts for about 4.5 lakh road crashes per annum, in which 1.5 lakh people die.
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NEW DELHI: Terming road accident scenario in India more dangerous than COVID-19 pandemic , Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said there could be a saving of Rs 90 lakh per person by preventing deaths and reducing injuries to minor ones in such incidents.
The minister stressed that the accident cost as a tremendous burden to society and the nation and the estimated cost of a death in a road accident is around Rs 91.16 lakh.
Releasing the World Bank report on Traffic Crash Injuries And Disabilities: The Burden on India Society , prepared in association with Save Life Foundation, Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister Gadkari said in this alarming scenario his ministry will formulate policies to protect the interest of the poor and embark on several reformative steps.