Karnataka capital Bengaluru was among the many cities with the best variety of deaths brought about resulting from street accidents in 2021, information from the Ministry of Highway Transport and Highways (MoRTH) stated. Delhi got here first within the checklist, recording 1,239 deaths, with Chennai and Bengaluru in second and third place, recording 998 and 654 deaths, respectively.
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Different cities after Bengaluru within the high 10 positions had been Jaipur, Kanpur, Agra, Allahabad (now Prayagraj), Indore, Raipur and Jabalpur. The report, titled ‘Highway accidents in India — 2021’, said that these high 10 cities made up for 43.13 per cent of deaths resulting from street accidents within the complete 50 cities surveyed.
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Srinagar, Amritsar and Jamshedpur had been the cities with the least street accident deaths in 2021, taking the underside three spots.
Bengaluru metropolis has seen a number of deaths this previous yr resulting from potholes and unhealthy street circumstances. The Karnataka excessive court docket in mid-December even ordered the state authorities to register First Info Studies (FIR) on complaints associated to accidents brought on by potholes.
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Potholes have come to be often known as dying traps in Bengaluru. Within the newest incident, a 55-year-old biker misplaced his life when he slipped whereas attempting to keep away from a pothole and a tractor ran over him. At the least 9 folks in Bengaluru have misplaced their lives in related incidents since October 2021.
(With PTI inputs)