New Delhi: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have registered maximum road accidents due to over speeding in 2019 whereas Uttar Pradesh and Maharastra registered maximum deaths due to careless driving, said the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) records.
Karnataka registered 10.8 per cent (9314 death out of a total of 86241) and Tamil Nadu registered 10.2 per cent (8832 out of 86241 deaths).
Maximum fatalities due to driving under influence of drug and alcohol were reported in Uttar Pradesh (28.6 per cent) followed by Jharkhand (13.9 per cent), Madhya Pradesh (6.7 per cent) and Telangana (6.0 per cent) during 2019.
The NCRB statistics said that maximum increase in the number of traffic accidents cases in states from 2018 to 2019 was reported in Madhya Pradesh (49080 to 53379) followed by Rajasthan (22401 to 24281) and Uttar Pradesh (40783 to 42368).
On the other hand, the maximum decrease was reported in Tamil Nadu (66110 to 59499).
The NCRB, however, collected data on "Traffic Accidents" comprising of road accidents, railway accidents and railway crossing accidents which accounted to 4,67,171 In 2019 which is a little decrease from the previous year's number of 4,74,638.
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These traffic accidents resulted in injuries to 4,42,996 persons and 1,81,113 deaths during 2019.
Uttar Pradesh (27661), Maharastra (18524) and Madhya Pradesh (13497) have reported maximum fatalities in traffic accidents in the country. These three states accounted for 15.3 per cent, 10.2 per cent and 7.5 per cent total deaths in traffic accidents.
