THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE
MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
(SHRI PON. RADHAKRISHNAN)
(a) The Working Group on Road Accidents, Injury Prevention and Control set up by Planning Commission had estimated the cost of road accidents on all roads in India at about 3% of GDP in 1999-2000.
(b),(d) &(e) The total number of road accidents has increased by 2.5 per cent from 4,89,400 in 2014 to 5,01,423 in 2015. The total number of persons killed in road accidents has also increased by 4.6 per cent from 1,39,671 in 2014 to 1,46,133 in 2015. 86.7 % of total number of road accidents is accounted by 13 states. State-UT wise details is annexed.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has taken a number of steps to improve safety on the roads:
i. The Government has approved a National Road Safety Policy. This Policy outlines various policy measures such as promoting awareness, establishing road safety information data base, encouraging safer road infrastructure including application of intelligent transport, enforcement of safety laws etc.
ii. The Government has constituted the National Road Safety Council as the apex body to take policy decisions in matters of road safety.
iii. The Ministry has requested all States/UTs for setting up of State Road Safety Council and District Road Safety Committees, and to hold their meetings regularly.
iv. The Ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety based on 4 ‘E’s viz. Education, Engineering (both of roads and vehicles), Enforcement and Emergency Care. Based on this, a draft action plan has been shared with the states.
v. Road safety has been made an integral part of road design at the planning stage.
vi. Road Safety Audit of selected stretches of National Highways has been taken up.
vii. High priority has been accorded to identification and rectification of black spots (accident prone spots) on national highways. Around 700 such black spots have been identified for improvement.
viii. The threshold for four laning of national highway has been reduced from 15,000 Passenger Car Units (PCUs) to 10,000 PCUs. About 52,000 Km of stretches of State Highways has been identified for conversion to national highways.
ix. Setting up of model driving training institutes in States and refresher training to drivers of Heavy Motor Vehicle in the unorganized sector.
x. Advocacy/Publicity campaign on road safety through the electronic and print media.
xi. Tightening of safety standards for vehicles like Seat Belts, Power-steering, anti-lock braking system etc.
xii. Providing cranes and ambulances to various State Governments under the National Highway Accident Relief Service Scheme for development on National Highways. National Highways Authority of India also provides ambulances at a distance of 50 Km. on each of its completed stretches of National Highways under its Operation & Maintenance contracts.
xiii. Launch of pilot projects for providing cashless treatment of road accident victims on Gurgaon – Jaipur, Vadodara – Mumbai stretch of National Highways No. 8 and Ranchi – Rargaon - Mahulia stretch of National Highway No. 33.
(c) The details of causes of Road Accidents during the calendar year 2015 are given in the following table:
Table: Causes of Road Accident on All Roads: 2015
Sr. No. Causes of road accidents Total number of Road Accidents
1 Fault of Driver 386481
2 Fault of Cyclist 3695
3 Fault of Driver of other vehicles 24431
4 Fault of Pedestrian 7509
5 Defect in Condition of Motor Vehicle 11601
6 Defect in Road Condition 7314
7 Weather Condition 5781
8 Fault of Passenger 6668
9 Poor light 5456
10 Falling of boulders 1087
11 Neglect of civic bodies 1076
12 Stray animals 1534
13 Other causes/ Causes not known 38790
Total 501423
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