Lockdown cuts road deaths by 62%, Auto News, ET Auto

NEW DELHI: Highway deaths diminished by 62% during the lockdown involving March 24 and May 31, in accordance to data delivered by 24 states and UTs to the Supreme Court Committee on Highway Safety.

Throughout this interval, these states reported eight,976 fewer fatalities, more than 25,000 fewer crashes and just about 26,000 fewer folks had been still left injured as in contrast to the corresponding interval in 2019.

Maharashtra observed the maximum decline of 1,632 street fatalities followed by Rajasthan (1,171), Gujarat (900), Bihar (898) and Telangana (604). Chandigarh and Daman and Diu reported no street deaths.

Among the states, Uttarakhand observed the maximum decline in these fatalities in share conditions (-ninety%) followed by Kerala registering 88.7% reduction.

Four big states which have not still submitted the data for this interval are Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Delhi has also not delivered the information. Analysis of the data also shows that the severity of street crashes, which is deaths for every 100 crashes, was better during these sixty nine days as in contrast to final year. While final year 39 folks had been killed in every 100 crashes during the very same interval, it increased to 46 during this year.

While street deaths have appear down substantially across the world during the Covid pandemic and lockdowns, the initial quarter of 2020 as well observed a fall in fatalities and injuries in crashes in India as in contrast to January-March interval of final year. Total, there was eight% decline or three,089 fewer fatalities during the initial 3 months of the existing calendar year. Barring, West Bengal, Goa, Tripura, Puducherry and Ladakh, all other states and UTs reported fewer fatalities.

UP reported maximum reduction of 521 street deaths followed by Maharashtra (297), Odisha (234), Tamil Nadu (227) and Kerala registering 215 fewer fatalities as in contrast to final year. Delhi registered 285 fatalities, 157 fewer than final year. The data has highlighted the significance of intensifying the information “street deaths are preventable and not a will of God”, say street safety activists.

“Highway customers, plan makers and infrastructure vendors ought to take that street crashes have practically nothing do with fate. It really is also obvious from these data that more robust motor motor vehicle legislation and better enforcement experienced brought some favourable outcomes in the initial quarter,” said K K Kapila, previous president of Intercontinental Highway Federation.

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