Dip in road accidents by 32% in 2020

Kerala has achieved exceptional efficiency in total road security by saving 1,488 lives on roads, lowering road accidents by 13,149, and accidents by 15,484 in 2020 as in comparison with the figures in 2019.

An total discount of 32% in road accidents, 33.5% in fatalities, and 33.6% in accidents was reported in 2020 as in comparison with 2019, as per the road accident statistics compiled by Technical Support Group of Kerala Road Safety Authority from knowledge sourced from the State Crime Records Bureau.

The road accidents had dropped from 41,111 in 2019 to 27,962, fatalities from 4,440 to 2,952, and accidents sustained from 46,055 to 30,571. Law enforcers are elated over the dip in road accidents and fatalities, as they had been below immense stress from the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety and MoRTH to carry down road accidents by 50%.

In 2020, the very best of three,953 accidents had been reported from Ernakulam district adopted by 3,558 in Thiruvananthapuram district, 2,899 in Thrissur, and a pair of,295 in Kozhikode district. Ernakulam district had 6,282 road accidents, Thiruvananthapuram 5,222, Thrissur 4,462, and Kozhikode district 3,450 road accidents in 2019. The lowest of 461 road accidents in 2020 had been registered in Wayanad district.

In the case of fatalities as a consequence of road accidents that befell in January to December interval in 2020, Thiruvananthapuram district tops the checklist with 371 deaths, adopted by 322 in Ernakulam, 316 in Kollam, and 234 in Kozhikode district. The fatalities had been 547 in Thiruvananthapuram district, 492 in Ernakulam, 440 in Kollam, and 381 in Kozhikode district in 2019. Wayanad reported 48 deaths, the least as a consequence of road accidents in 2020.

Ernakulam district additionally tops the checklist with 4,263 sustaining accidents because of road accidents throughout 2020. Thiruvananthapuram is behind with 3,761 sustaining accidents, Thrissur 3,239, and Kozhikode 2,450.

The highest variety of 3,987 accidents and fatalities of 398 befell in January 2020 and the bottom of 439 road accidents and 52 deaths was in April 2020.

Joint Transport Commissioner Rajeev Putalath mentioned the State had been capable of keep the pattern in the decline in accidents and fatalities that started in November 2020 when the compounding fines for varied offences by motorists had been elevated steeply.

“Along with this, the stern enforcement measures by the MVD and police had helped to bring down road accidents, increase use of headgear and seat belts, and curb overspeeding and drunk driving among the motorists. The less number of vehicles on the roads due to the pandemic-induced lockdown from March also was a factor for the dip in accidents,” he added.