Bhubaneswar: The latest report on unintentional death and suicide in India (ADSI), compiled by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), shows that Odisha witnessed the highest number of deaths due to falling from vehicles engaged in the country in 2020.
A The total of 1167 people, including 158 women, died in the state after accidentally fell from running vehicles last year, the highest in this country, the ADSI report stated.
Maharashtra stood in second place with 1058 deaths while Madhya Pradesh was ranked third with 397 fatalities.
In 2019, only 69 people died after falling from a vehicle engaged in the state, placing Odisha in 13th place.
The latest report has captured transportation and road safety in surprise.
“We have never expected that deaths from the decline of the vehicle will rise so worrying.
We will definitely check the cause and overcome this problem,” said a senior officer with road safety cells from the Department of Transportation.
Experts say vehicles are crowded, most buses, can be possible reasons for increasing deaths due to unintentional fall.
“Like on the train, many people often fall while going up or down from running buses.
The government must launch a massive conscious campaign and take action against vehicle operators,” said Jayanta Hotam, a road safety campaigner.
It must be noted that death related to the accident on the road has increased by almost 21% from 3,931 deaths in 2014 to 4,738 in 2020 in the state.
This regardless of the Supreme Court Committee on the safety of the road directed the state government to reduce it by 50% by 2020.
The findings of Adsi have also placed Odisha above when until death caused by electrical short circuit.
As many as 490 people died by unintentional fires after the short electrical circuit in the state last year, with Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh reported 186 and 158 deaths like that.
Odisha was also over 279 deaths due to intentional fires triggered by electrical short circuit in 2019, the report stated.