Bengaluru: A total of 7,523 people have been killed and 33,864 were injured in 28,036 road accidents reported in Karnataka until October 21 this year, showing data with state police.
These statistics were synchronized with a trend of five years before, when accidents and road injuries because they declined.
In 2020, when Covid-19 hit, forcing the government to uphold locking and limiting people from moving, looking at the lowest number of road accidents and related deaths during 2016-20.
For the first time in this period, the number of road accidents (34,718) and death (9,760) because they were each dipped below 40,000 and 10,000, by 2020.
The number of people who were injured in a road accident had also dropped over the past five years.
While 54,556 people were injured in a road accident in 2016, the number reached 39,492 in 2020.
Officers and senior IPS commissioners for road traffic and safety, Pratap Reddy, said strict road law enforcement and rapid action with emergency response service support (ESS ) Vehicles, which are widely deployed throughout the country and the National Highways, have resulted in fewer accidents and deaths.
“Interceptor is deployed in various places to track and excessive vehicles.
Also, other routine steps such as drunken driving checks have helped reduce accidents.
Furthermore, response quickly by the staff of the ESS, which reached the accident in the fastest time that was possible, saved Life is a lot of injured people Different from the country, “Reddy said.
Other senior IPS officers said good streets and widening lines also contributed to the decline in the number of accidents.
“Many national highways and states have been expanded to four or six lines with separators and median classes.
Also, the engineering road is getting better,” he said.
“However, a better road and a wide path also leads to high-impact accidents.
Moving vehicles with high speed colliding with each other, often killing more than two people in place.
If the same accident happens on normal roads, death will be less .
Increasing highway patrols is the best way to deal with such accidents, “he added.