{"id":66003,"date":"2025-10-01T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=66003"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:55:34","slug":"ncrb-data-on-road-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ncrb-data-on-road-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"NCRB Data on Road Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>NCRB Data on Road Accidents Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 1.73 lakh people were killed and 4.47 lakh injured in road accidents across the country in 2023, according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About NCRB Data on Road Accidents<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of<\/span><b> 4,64,029 road accidents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> took place in the country <\/span><b>in 2023,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 17,261 more than in 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>More than 1.73 lakh people were killed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>4.47 lakh injured<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in road accidents across the country in 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The highest number of <\/span><b>accidents (20.7% of total) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were reported <\/span><b>between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 3 pm to 6 pm and 12 noon to 3 pm accounted for 17.3 percent and 15 percent , respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Two-wheelers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accounted for the<\/span><b> highest number of fatal road accidents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, causing 79,533 deaths, or <\/span><b>45.8% of total deaths<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>followed by pedestrians<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at 27,586 (<\/span><b>15.9%) and SUV\/car\/jeep at 24,776 (14.3%).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Most of the deaths in two-wheeler accidents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were reported in <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu (11,490) and Uttar Pradesh (8,370).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A large number of<\/span><b> deaths due to SUV\/car\/jeep accidents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were reported in <\/span><b>Uttar Pradesh (19.2% of total )<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a large number of <\/span><b>deaths due to trucks\/lorries\/mini truck accidents were also reported in the State (29.9% of total).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally road accidents have caused more injuries than deaths, but <\/span><b>in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>road accidents caused more deaths compared to persons injured.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Cause-Wise Analysis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Fatal Road Accidents:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>58.6% (1,01,841) and 23.6% (41,035) of fatalities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were <\/span><b>due to speeding and dangerous\/careless driving or overtaking, respectively.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor weather conditions, driving under influence of drug\/alcohol, and animal crossings caused 4,952 deaths.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> highest number of deaths<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were reported <\/span><b>on the National Highways<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accounting for <\/span><b>34.6%, followed by State Highways at 23.4%.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State\/UT-wise patterns revealed that maximum <\/span><b>fatalities in road accidents on<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>National Highways took<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> place in<\/span><b> Uttar Pradesh, followed by Tamil Nadu,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh during 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Of the 69,910 traffic accidents <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that were reported <\/span><b>in the megacities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> throughout the year,<\/span><b> 5,715 occurred in Delhi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> making up<\/span><b> 8.2% of the total.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bengaluru and Chennai <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were ranked <\/span><b>second and third<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the list, with 4,980 and 3,653 road crashes each.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With 1,457 fatalities, <\/span><b>Delhi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had the <\/span><b>highest number of deaths in the same year. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Bengaluru ranked second<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with 915 road accident deaths in the same year, while Jaipur came in third with 848.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/150450\/OPS\/GNUEVKNM4.1+GMCEVLOQK.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRB Data on Road Accidents shows that a total of 4,64,029 road accidents took place in the country in 2023, 17,261 more than in 2022. 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