139,091 LIVES 2012 IN INDIA
IGNATIUS
PEREIRA
As many
as 1,39,091 persons lost their lives in 4,40,042 road accidents in the country
last yearAccording to statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau
(NCRB) on Saturday, 1,18,533 of the victims were male. They include 11,571
pedestrians. The 28 States together accounted for 1,36,771 deaths and the seven
Union Territories for the remaining.Tamil Nadu tops the list of with 16,175
deaths in 67,757 accidents, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 15,109 deaths in
24,478 accidents. Andhra Pradesh is third with 14,966 deaths in 39,344
accidents and Maharashtra fourth with 13,936 deaths in 45,247 accidents. The
Capital city of Delhi accounts for 1,866 deaths in 6,937 accidents.The UT of
Lakshadweep is the only administrative division where no road accidents have
taken place. It has 9,000 registered vehicles as on December 31, 2012.
Accidents
involving two wheelers accounted for the largest number of deaths — 32,318 or
23.2 per cent — followed by lorries — 26,678 (19.2 per cent). Bicycles
accounted for 3069 deaths.The death toll in 2012 is 2,257 more than in 2011 —
an increase of 1.6 per cent. In 2011 too, Tamil Nadu led the country with
15,422 deaths in 65,873 accidents. Andhra Pradesh was second that year with
15,158 deaths in 41,066 accidents.Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka
accounted for 15.4%, 10.3% and 10.1% of the road accidents in the country.They
also reported the largest number of road accidents each month of the year in
2012. Delhi reported the most number of road accidents among the Union
Territories. In fact, its road accidents figure in 2012 stands above those of
14 States.The rate of accidental deaths per thousand vehicles in 2012 was the
highest in Bihar and West Bengal at 1.9 each, followed by Himachal Pradesh with
1.8, Andhra Pradesh 1.5 and Jammu & Kashmir 1.5, compared to 1.0 at the
national level. The rate of deaths per 100 cases of accidents was the highest
in Nagaland (133.3), followed by Punjab (75.8) and Mizoram (70.0), compared to
31.6 at the national level.
The
number of road accidents in 2012 showed only a marginal decrease of 0.02 per
cent compared to 2011. In 2011, there were 4,40,123 road accidents.Tamil Nadu,
Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra accounted for 11.6%, 10.9%, 10.8%
and 10.0% of the deaths in road accidents in 2012.Most of the accidents (73,672
cases or 16.7 per cent) took place between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Between 6 p.m. and
9 p.m., there were 73,070 cases (16.6 per cent). Roads were comparatively safer
between 12 midnight and 3 a.m., when there were only 29,483 cases (6.3 per
cent).The statistics also show that the largest number of accidents (38,920)
took place in the month of May last year.
Prof. John Kurakar
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