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Ministry of Road Transport & Highways:Road Accidents

  • Road Accidents

  • The Government has taken the  decision to curb the incidents of loss of lives and property caused by road accidents in the country. The Working Group on Road Accidents, Injury Prevention and Control set up by the Planning Commission in the year 2000 had assessed the social cost of road accidents in India at Rs. 55,000 crore  which constituted about 3% of the Gross Domestic Product(GDP) of the country in the year 1999-2000. Further, the world report on road traffic and injury prevention by World Bank and WHO published in 2004, has estimated the cost of road crash injuries at roughly 1% of Gross National Product (GNP) in low income countries, 1.5% in middle income countries and 2% in high income countries.

  •  Ministry of Road Transport & Highways collects information on road accidents from States/Union Territories (UTs) in a 19-item format devised under Asia Pacific Road Accident Data (APRAD)/Indian Road Accident Data (IRAD) project for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific and publishes the data in ‘Road Accidents in India’. Based on the latest issue of ‘Road Accidents in India’ and issue of the ‘World Road Statistics’ (WRS) 2010 brought out by the International Road Federation, Geneva, the average number of road accidents (defined in terms of road accidents per one lakh population) in select countries is as under:-

  • Cross Country Comparison of Injury Accidents per Lakh of Population in 2008

    Sl. No.

    Country

    Injury Accidents per 100,000 Population

    1

    Australia

    6.78

    2

    Brazil

                61.15 (2004)

    3

    Canada

    415.10

    4

    China

    20.02

    5

    Denmark

    91.38

    6

    France

    119.63

    7

    Germany

    390.47

    8

    Indonesia

    26.02

    9

    India

              42.5 (2010)

    10

    Italy

    365.96

    11

    Japan

    599.94

    12

    Jordan

    1711.23

     

    13

    Korea, Republic of

    444.01

    14

    Malaysia

    1380.92

    15

    Niger

    3.38

    16

    Philippines

    4.39

    17

    Russian Federation

    153.58

    18

    United Kingdom

    287.88

    19

    United States of America

    536.08

  • Injury accident refers to road accident resulting in at least one injury or death.Data relates to 2008, except for Brazil and India.For Brazil, the data relates to 2004 and for India the data relates to 2010.This information was given by the Minister of Road Transport & Highways Dr. Tushar A. Choudhary  in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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