70% of road crash deaths in India were caused by speeding – Transport ministry

Last year, the government released data showing that 168,491 people died on India’s roads.

The country only has 1% of all the vehicles in the world, but it has the most deaths from accidents compared to any other country.

In 2022, there were more deaths compared to the previous year, according to a report by India’s transport ministry. The increase in fatalities was about 9. 4%

Speeding caused the death of 70% of all people, which is seven out of every ten.

There are many road accidents in India because people drive badly and the roads and vehicles are not well taken care of.

The report, which came out on Tuesday, said that the country lost 462 lives each day and 19 lives every hour to road accidents last year.

In the country, 443,000 people were hurt in road crashes. The number of accidents went up by 11. 9% from 2021 to 2022. The report said that most of these accidents happened because cars were hit from behind or because the person who hit them ran away.

According to the report, Tamil Nadu, a state in the south, had the most accidents. Madhya Pradesh, a state in the central region, had the second highest number of accidents.

It also said that in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic started, the country did temporarily go against the usual situation.

According to the transport ministry, there was a significant decrease in accidents and deaths, especially in March and April, when the country enforced a lockdown to stop the virus from spreading. This decrease was unlike anything seen before. But the numbers increased once more.

The government department said it has been trying hard to reduce the problem by making roads better, increasing watchfulness on highways, and giving strict punishments for breaking traffic rules.

Last month, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari spoke to the MoneyControl website and said that the government alone cannot solve the traffic problem unless people start obeying traffic rules with more seriousness.

“He said that we are not happy and have not noticed a decrease in accidents because we need to change how people behave. ”

A study by the World Bank reveals that road accidents cost the Indian economy around 5-7% of GDP each year.

More than half of the people who got hurt are walking, riding bikes, or riding motorcycles. And almost 84% of all the deaths are among people who are between the ages of 18 and 60 and are working.