According to ‘Road accidents in India — 2020’ report, prepared by the Transport Research Wing (TRW) of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) which was released on Thursday, Nagaland recorded a total of 500 road accidents in 2020 making it the second highest among the North-Eastern states and ranked 25 across the country.

 

“Despite some marginal fluctuations, the percentage share of North Eastern States in total fatalities have been constant during the last four years i.e. 2016 to 2020,” the report said.

 

 

According to the report, a total of 3,66,138 road accidents were reported by States and Union Territories (UTs) during the calendar year 2020, claiming 1,31,714 lives and causing 3, 48,279 injuries. Tamil Nadu with 45,484 accidents (12.4%) recorded the highest number of road accidents in 2020; however, the number of persons killed in road accidents has been the highest in Uttar Pradesh with 19,149 (14.5%).

 

 

Mizoram (79) recorded the highest accident severity rate while Nagaland (10.6) was among the lowest in the accident severity rate as well as the fatality rate during 2020.

 

 

According to the report, the road accidents parameters registered a significant decline in 2020 compared to 2019 by 18.46 percent; even the number of persons killed decreased by 12.84 percent and the number injuries decreased by 22.84 percent over previous year’s average.

 

 

There has also been a decline in the number of fatal accidents, i.e., accidents involving at least one death. A total of 1, 20,806 fatal accidents were reported in 2020, which is 12.23 per cent lower than the 2019 figure of 1, 37,689. However, road accident severity measured by the number of persons killed per 100 accidents, saw an increase of 2.3 percentage points during 2020.

 

 

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