Gurgaon: Because the volume of traffic on city streets increased by 2021 due to easing restrictions and mobility offices that began calling employees, road accidents see a leap of around 10% year-to-year.
The number of road accidents in the city rose from 796 by 2020 to 874 in 2021, according to official data.
As wise data months, maximum accidents occur in October and December, when public places are busy with people and normal.
Start arranged before the third wave led by Omicron produces night hours.
The number of fatal road accidents also increased from 347 by 2020 to 389 in 2021, a 10% surge.
While a fatal road accident killed 375 people in 2020, around 409 people died last year.
Comparison of the proportion of fatal accidents to accidents as a whole also highlighted the increase in fatal ratios.
While in 2020, around 43% of the total accident was fatal, it was 45% in 2021.Polisi and road safety officers, meanwhile, associated an increase in accidents on increasing traffic volume in 2021 seeing the government reduce the restriss.
These claims are proven by monthly data analysis, which revealed that the maximum number of accidents occurred in the second half of this year.
“This increase is mostly due to the increase in traffic volume.
From public transportation to the public such as buses, the overall mobility increased in the second half of the year when the business began to function fully, the company office began calling 50% of their staff to offices and schools and open colleges.
However, the increase in the accident on the road was still calm, “said street safety officers.
While the overall accident data was still lower in 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic period (1073 of 2019), road safety experts said that most would be associated with the fact that parts of people still worked from home and traffic volume had not reached the 2019 level.
” The increasing number of deaths shows that the severity of the accident increases.
It is not surprising because the vehicle on the streets is still lacking and it will lead to speeding, “said the city street safety expert to Ram Ram to Ti.
“In’s deeper data analysis will be, most likely, suggest that things that are mostly the same in terms of black spots in the city.”