Bhubaneswar: Death due to an accident in all states has increased by almost 16% from January to September this year as the three quarters in 2020.
It was revealed in the latest data distributed by the Transport Department.
Overall 3,708 people have died in an accident on the road in the first nine months of this year.
This figure has reached 3,197 for the same period in 2020.
This worrying trend is close to the main heels of the Naveen Patnaik Minister who expressed serious concerns over the increasing number of accidental deaths in his 63rd senior police officers conference here last week.
On Thursday, officers at the State Road Safety Council (SRSC) met here crashing strategies to prevent accident death.
“We have urged regional transportation officers, district collectors and police supervisors to take urgent steps to reduce accident deaths,” said a senior transportation official.
In the SRC meeting, officials observed that districts such as Jajpur, Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, Ballasore, Khurda, Cuttack, Ganjam, Coraput and Sambalpur continued vulnerable, recorded more than 100 deaths during January to September.
Districts such as Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Boudh, Jharsuguda, Rayaganada, Malkangiri and Nuabada reported mortality by 30% or more than the same period last year.
There was a steady increase in the number of deaths starting in 2014 (3,931 deaths) up to 2020 (4,738deaths), a leap around 21%.
This is released from the Supreme Court Committee about road safety after asking the state to take steps to reduce death by 10% every year from 2015 and so on.
The Supreme Court Committee observed that despite the violation of the helmet law produced around 41% of deaths, the state government was worthless to overcome this problem.
The committee also expressed displeasure of law enforcement relating to DLS’s suspension in 2020 and 2021.
Excessive overlakging contributed to 69% of accidents, but actions against violators were lacking, the committee was observed.