New Delhi: By 2020, every 100 road crashes are claimed, on average, 37 lives as recorded by police throughout the country, the most in the last five years.
However, overall death, reduced because of the limitation of the pandemic induced in the movement of vehicles for months.
Comparative analysis of the National Crime Records (NCRB) data from 2017 to 2020 shows that the number of lives lost per 100 Crash Road is 35 in 2019, 34 in 2018 and 32 in 2017.
It is also defined as “accident severity” and the indicator of how safe or Not safe road.
According to the latest report on unintentional death published by the NCRB for 2020, the overall death of the road was reduced by almost 14%, from around 1.5 lakh in 2019 to 1.3 lakh for the past year, mainly due to restrictions due to Covid-19.
But indicators such as the severity of crashes and increasing the share of the death of two-wheeled occupants in total deaths – from 36% in 2019 to 43.6% by 2020 – emerged as a matter of concern.
“The NCRB report also shows how the number of road crashes increases when the restriction of the vehicle movement is appointed during the second half of 2020.
It can be caused by the increasing number of vehicles and also signs of systemic problems such as traffic engineering and wrong road design that we need to repair than just putting it All mistakes for road users, “said Rohit Baluja, road safety experts and college management of traffic management.
In fact, the data showed that the number of road crashes in 2020 were recorded by the lowest police department in April at 8,350 and remained less than the figures of 2019 to October.
Crash traffic surged in November and December.
In November last year, the number of registered road crashes was 36,607 compared to 36,131 in 2019 and in December 2020, this increased to 38.128 compared to 36,394 per year.
NCRB does not publish wise fatality, unlike the ‘accident in India’ report that the Ministry of Transportation is published every year.
The ministry has not published a report in 2020.