Twenty districts within the state accounted for 43% of deaths in highway accidents that occurred between 2019 and 2021, in keeping with a report by the transport division. The remaining 55 districts yearly reported round 57% of the overall fatalities.
“We now have recognized 20 districts that accounted for 43% of the overall highway accident deaths yearly between 2019 and 2021,” highway security deputy commissioner PS Satyarthi mentioned and blamed these districts for not taking sufficient measures to curb highway accidents. “We recurrently write to district magistrates involved asking them to take obligatory steps to place a brake on the variety of mishaps of their districts,” he added.
The districts that reported essentially the most accident deaths (in descending order), in keeping with the official, are Kanpur Nagar, Agra, Prayagraj, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura, Lucknow, Unnao, Hardoi, Bareilly, Sitapur Fatehpur, Gorakhpur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Jaunpur, Meerut, Barabanki, Shajhanpur, Ghaziabad and Kushinagar.
As per the report ready by the transport division, these 20 districts reported as many as 9,858 deaths in 2019, 8,272 in 2020 and eight,904 in 2021. Whereas the three-year common of fatalities within the 20 districts stood at 9,011, the state-wide determine was 21,010 for a similar interval.
Kanpur Nagar stood on the prime with essentially the most variety of highway accident fatalities (618 yearly on common), adopted by Agra (560), Prayagraj (550) and Bulandshahr (525). Lucknow, with 381 annual common deaths, was within the seventh spot.
In accordance with the identical report, these 20 districts mixed had 34% of the overall 1,110 black spots (accident-prone locations) within the state in 2020. The variety of black spots there barely diminished from 494 (38.9%) in 2018 to 376 (33.9%) in 2020.
In its entirety, the state reported 22,655 highway accident deaths in 2019, 19,149 in 2020 and 21,227 in 2021. Knowledge for 2022 was but to be made out there.
Additionally, the state continued to take the lead by way of annual accident deaths. It contributed 13.8% to the nationwide determine and was adopted by Tamil Nadu (10%) and Maharashtra (8.8%), in keeping with an annual report not too long ago launched by the Union ministry of highway transport and highways.