Bike riders top road crash fatality checklist, both as victims & as perpetrators | India News

NEW DELHI Riders of two-wheelers had the best share of road deaths – 45% or 77,539 – in 2023 whereas 48,818 folks had been killed in accidents attributable to these automobiles in that yr, based on the Union ministry of road transport & highways just lately revealed road crashes report. Cars and taxis adopted as the second-highest contributors to road fatalities, whereas vans ranked third.The Road Accidents in India 2023 report confirmed that crashes attributable to two-wheelers had a very extreme influence on susceptible road customers. One-fourth of all pedestrians and cyclists killed in 2023 died in accidents involving two-wheelers, indicating a rising menace to non-motorised road customers. Significantly, the best variety of victims in two-wheeler-related crashes had been the riders themselves. Of the whole fatalities attributable to these automobiles, 27,539 individuals who misplaced their lives had been driving two-wheelers on the time of the crash.

In crashes attributable to two-wheeler drivers, knowledge shared by states confirmed, Tamil Nadu reported the utmost variety of pedestrian deaths (1,796) and two-wheeler occupant fatalities (5,906) amongst all states and UTs. The different states the place the variety of pedestrian fatalities in such crashes was important had been West Bengal (938), Bihar (865), Karnataka (787) and Maharashtra (747) in 2023.Similarly, states the place two-wheeler riders had been killed in accidents attributable to the identical automobile included MP (2,916), Maharashtra (2,646) and Uttar Pradesh (2,279).The report additionally highlights how two-wheeler riders stay essentially the most susceptible in crashes attributable to different automobiles.While consultants have referred to as for stricter enforcement of helmet legal guidelines, they’ve additionally careworn on the necessity to have segregated lanes for two-wheelers.