Mumbai: The recent road accident statistics by Maharashtra police show an increase in the number of vehicles flowing from the road after an accident – from 1,232 cases in the state in 2019 to 1,435 cases in 2020.
It also sees an increase in death on the highway and other roads Of 564 in 2019 to 762 by 2020 – a 35% increase in road death.
Statistics also show that because “speed up, cut the path or try to follow”, there are 10,975 crashes where the vehicle struck from behind or as of 2020 and there were 4,319 head-on collisions.
In 2019, there were 13,633 crashes involving vehicles hit from behind or aside compared to 6,141 crashes head-on.
Death because vehicles that were beaten from behind or side were 4,466 in 2020 which more than doubled compared to 2,040 deaths due to head collisions.
About 553 cases are vehicles that hit the divider / fixed object last year.
Additional Director General of Police (Traffic) Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay said: “There is an urgent need to discipline the driver not to accelerate or follow because this causes a crash on the highway.” He added that there was also a case of vehicles that hit a parked vehicle.
“Accidents like that usually occur at night and now we have deployed more crane vehicles to clean the car or truck damaged during the trip.” According to the latest statistics, there were 520 vehicle cases that hit vehicles parked by 2020 compared to 796 cases in 2019.
Statistics also showed that there was a decrease in the number of hit-and-run cases which were dipped from 8,775 cases in 2019 to 6,049 cases in 2020 .
the number of cases overturned vehicle on the highway after the accident also dropped from 1,540 in 2019 to 1,009 in 2020.
officials Asenior of the Office of the State Transport Commissioner said: “Because there is a serious problem accelerating, Lane-cutting and overtaking on the highway that has caused more Many crashes involving vehicles affected by side or back, we will conduct consciousness campaigns in January at Maharashtra.
“The official said that the campaign would involve educating residents about road safety and traffic regulations, upholding a strict fine that was more than double and take polar section steps on the accident’s vulnerable site Akan to reduce crashes.
MAHA: 35% rose in death because the vehicle went on the road
