Lok Sabha Question No. 5373 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-25
Subject: Road Crash Deaths
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: Shrirang Appa Barne, Chandra Sekhar Sahu, Girish Bhalchandra Bapat

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO. 5373

ANSWERED ON 25 TH  JULY, 2019

## ROAD  CRASH  DEATHS

## 5373.   SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE:

SHRI CHANDRA SEKHAR SAHU:

SHRI GIRISH  BHALCHANDRA  BAPAT:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS सड़क परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मंत्री

be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the data as released recently relating to road crash deaths have exposed the lack of uniformity and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor;
- (b) whether  India  is  a  signatory  to  the  Brasilia  Declaration  on  Road  Safety  and  committed  to halving road crash deaths by 2020;
- (c) if so, the details thereof and the extent to which road accident cases have been reduced;
- (d) whether road accident data in our country are unreliable and not good for any research/remedy and if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto;
- (e) whether the Government has started an exercise to revamp the format which local police used to report road crashes and forward them to Transport Research Wing and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) the steps taken by the Government to prepare authenticated data thereon which can be used for remedial purposes?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS (SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) The  Ministry  analyses  the  road  accidents  data  received  from  the  Police  Department  of  the States/UTs.  The  latest  compiled  data  of  road  crash  death  available  with  the  Ministry  is  for  the calendar year 2017  as under:-

|   Years | Total Number of accidents in the country   | Total Number of persons killed in road accident in the country   |
|---------|--------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    2017 | 4,64,910                                   | 1,47,913                                                         |

Road accidents occur due to multiple causes such as use of Mobile phone, drunken driving/consumption of alcohol/ drug, overloaded Vehicle, poor  light condition,  jumping red light, over    speeding,  overtaking,  neglect  of  civic  bodies,  weather  condition,  fault  of  driver,    driving  on wrong side, defect in road condition, defect in condition of motor vehicle,  fault of cyclist,  fault of pedestrian etc.

(b) & (c)      The  second  global  high  level  conference  on  Road  Safety  was  organized  on  18  -19 th November,  2015  in  Brasilia.  India  also  participated  in  the  conference.  In  the  conference,  it  was agreed to   halve the number of global deaths and injured from road traffic accidents by 2020. It was also agreed that road crashes are the leading cause of deaths around the world. It was also agreed that  there  is  the  need  for  countries  to  introduce,  or  improve  and  strengthen,  arrangements  for monitoring serious injuries from road traffic accidents. Data/information on road accidents received from the Police Department of all State/UTs for the calendar year 2017 reveals that the number of road accidents was down by 3.3% and the number of injuries by 4.8% in 2017 as compared to 2016.

(d) to  (f)    To  review  the  existing  road  accident  data  collection  /  reporting  format  so  as  to  make recording and reporting of road accident data more accurate, objective and ensuring coverage of all relevant  information,  a  Committee  was  constituted  consisting  experts  from  Indian  Institute  of Technology (IIT), Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, World  Health Organization (WHO), senior officers from Police and Transport Departments of States, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and officers of the Ministry. On the basis of the recommendations of the Committee, a revised uniform road accident recording and reporting format has been adopted since calendar year 2017.

*****

.

.