Dip in road accidents, fatalities in Kerala
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Increase in penalties following amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act and the COVID-19-induced lockdown have resulted in accidents coming down by 9,700, accidents by 11,325 and in saving 1,233 lives on roads in the State throughout the 12-month interval ending September 2020.
The accidents, accidents and fatalities that had been 41,206, 46,140 and 4,468 respectively in the 12 months from September 2018 have come all the way down to 31,508, 34,815 and three,235 respectively from September 2019 to September 2020.
The discount is 30%, 31% and 33% respectively for road accidents, accidents and fatalities.
Analysis of the road accident statistics by the Kerala Road Safety Authority (KRSA) has revealed that there have been no important modifications in the accidents from September 2019 to December 2019, the interval after the Motor Vehicles Act modification. However, there was a slight decline in their severity. After the penalties for numerous offences on the road went up, there was a 4% discount in crashes and accidents and 17% discount in road fatalities in January-March 2020.
In the April-May 2020 interval when the lockdown was enforced because of the pandemic, the road accidents declined by 75% and fatalities by 78% in the State.
In the ‘Unlock’ interval from June to August 2020, the road accidents and accidents throughout the State had been lesser by 40% and fatalities by 34%.
Enforcement measures
A 25% decline in road fatalities throughout the interval, excluding the lockdown interval, might be attributed to the strict enforcement measures by the MVD and the police following the MV Act modification and the roll out of the Safe Kerala Project, says KRSA Executive Director, Road Safety, T. Elangovan.
The accident knowledge for the interval from January 2020 to September 2020 interval has additionally proven a decline of 34.7% in accidents and 40.1% in fatalities.
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