Road Safety: A Journey That Must Be Taken

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India continues to have the highest amount of road deaths in the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released the Global Status Report on Road Safety, 2015 (GSR). Although the report acknowledges that globally the number of road traffic deaths has plateaued since 2007, the picture remains alarming for India.

According to the GSR, 2,07,551 people were killed in road crashes in India in 2014. This is 46% more than the figures reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) for the same period. This anomaly exists because the WHO’s definition of road crash deaths – “any death which occurs within 30 days as a result of injuries sustained due to a road crash” – is not followed uniformly across India.

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Source: NDTV

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