“ROAD
ACCIDENTS IN INDIA – 2022” - REPORTS & INDICES
News:
Record
1.68 Lakh Road Accident Deaths In 2022; 1 Every 3 Minutes
What's
in the news?
● The
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
has published a Report titled- ‘Road Accidents in India-2022.
Key
takeaways:
● Asia Pacific Road
Accident Data is a software tool developed
specifically for the UNESCAP and its member countries to help member countries
in the Asia-Pacific region develop, update, maintain, and manage road accident
databases.
Highlights
of the report:
● Data
represent an 11.9% year-on-year increase in accidents, a 9.4% rise in
fatalities, and a substantial 15.3% surge in the number of people injured
compared to the previous year.
● 32.9%
of accidents took place on National
Highways and Expressways.
● 23.1%
on State Highways
● 43.9%
on other roads.
● Young
adults in the age group of 18 - 45 years accounted for 66.5% of the victims in
2022.
● About
68% of road accident deaths occurred in rural areas, with urban areas
contributing 32% to the total accident deaths in the country.
● Tamil Nadu
recorded the highest number of road accidents in 2022, with 13.9% of the total
accidents, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 11.8%.
Other
Key takeaways:
● In
2022, over speeding accounted for 72.3 percent of the total road accidents,
71.2 percent of total deaths and 72.8 percent of total injuries, up 12.8
percent, 11.8 percent and 15.2 percent respectively when compared to the
previous year.
● As
per the data, 67 percent of all accidents occurred on straight roads.
● Most
collisions in 2022 were what the report classifies as ‘hit from back’. These
accounted for over 21 percent of all collisions, followed by ‘head on
collisions’ which accounted for 16.9 percent.
● Almost
three fourth of all accidents and fatalities took place under ‘sunny/clear’
weather.
● Two-wheelers
accounted for the highest number of accidents and deaths.
● Sikkim
reported the highest fatality rate, standing at 17. UTs Ladakh and Daman &
Diu had the lowest fatality rate at 0. The all India rate stood at 5.2.
Go
back to basics:
Fatality
Rate:
● Fatality
rate is used to explain road accidents relative to vehicular population in a
given location. It is measured by the number of road accident fatalities per
10,000 vehicles.