road accidents in india – 2017

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ROAD ACCIDENTS IN INDIA – 2017

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS
TRANSPORT RESEARCH WING
NEW DELHI
www.morth.nic.in

CONTENTS

S.
Section Page No.
No.
1. Executive Summary 1-2
Section I: Road Accidents in the Context of Registered Vehicles and
2. 3-5
Road Network
Section 2: Profile and Trends of Road Accidents
3. 6-12
4. Section 3: Accidents by Road Category & Road Features 13-17
5. Section 4: Road Accidents by Type of Vehicle involved 18-20
Section 5: Road Accidents by Road Users Category and Profile of Fatal
6. 21-24
Victims
7. Section 6: Causes of Road Accidents 25-27
8. Section 7: Inter State Comparison 28-32
9. Section 8: Road Accidents in One Million Plus Cities 33-34
10. Section 9: Spatial & Inter temporal Distribution of Road Accidents 35-36
11. Section 10: International Comparison 37-38
12. Section 11: Road Safety Initiatives by the Government of India 39-45
Section 12: Road Accidents Mitigation Measures taken by MoRTH in
13. 46-48
recent past

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Tables

S. Page
Tables
No. No.
Table 1.1: Road Accident, Registered Vehicles and Road Length in India
1 4
(1970-2017)
2 Table 2.1: Major parameters of road accident statistics in 2017 vis-à-vis 2016 6
3 Table 2.2: Type of road accidents in 2017 vis-à-vis 2016 7
4 Table 2.3: Road accident by type of collision - 2017 vis-à-vis 2016 7
5 Table 2.4: Road accident, fatality and injury by type of collision – 2017 8
6 Table 2.5: Long-run trend of major parameters of road accident statistics 9
Table 3.1: Road Accidents, Fatality and Injury by road category - 2016 &
7 13
2017
Table 3.2: Long-run trends of relative share of road categories in road
8 14
accident, fatality and injury
9 Table 3.3: Accident, fatality and injury by road environment - 2017 15
10 Table 3.4: Accident, fatality and injury by road feature - 2017 15
11 Table 3.5: Accidents by road junction type - 2017 16
12 Table 3.6: Accidents at road junctions by type of traffic control - 2017 16
13 Table 3.7: Road accidents by weather condition - 2017 17
14 Table 4.1: Road accidents, fatality and injury by vehicle type 2016 & 2017 18
Table 4.2: Road accidents, fatality and injury by age of vehicles involved
15 19
2016 & 2017
Table 5.1: Persons killed in road accidents in terms of road user categories -
16 21
2016 & 2017
17 Table 5.2: Age profile of fatal road accident victims during 2016 and 2017 22
Table 5.3: Gender-wise age profile of fatal road accident victims in 2016 &
18 23
2017
Table 6.1: Road accidents by type of traffic rules violations - 2017
19 25
Table 6.3: Road accidents by on type of licence – 2016 & 2017
20 26
Table 7.1: Number of road accidents in top 15 States and respective
21 30
percentage shares in total accidents during 2016 and 2017
Table 7.2: Number of road accident fatalities in top 15 States and respective
22 31
percentage shares in total fatalities during 2016 and 2017
23 Table 8.1: Percentage share of 50 one million-plus cities in road accidents 33
Table 8. 2: Number of Road Accidents, persons killed & injured in one
24 34
Million-Plus Cities in 2017
Table 9.1: Number of road accidents, fatalities and injuries in Rural and
25 35
Urban areas during 2016 and 2017
Table 9.5: Number of road accidents by time interval of day - 2017
26 36
Table 10.1: Cross Country Comparison of Incidence of Road related Deaths
27 37
and Injury Accidents in 2014

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Charts
No. Chart Page No.
1 Map 1.1 Road Accidents in 2017 - States-wise 5
Chart 2.1: Growth Rates (CAGR) of Road Accident, Fatality and
2 9
Injury
3 Chart 2.2: Long-run trend of road accident risk 10
4 Chart 2.3: Long-run trend of road accident fatality risk 10
5 Chart 2.4: Long-run trend of road accident rate 11
6 Chart 2.5: Long-run trend of road accident fatality rate 11
7 Chart 2.6: Long-run trend of vehicle density 12
Chart 3.1: Road accident, fatality and injury by road category 2017
8 13
(percentage share)
9 Chart 4.1: Share of different vehicle types in road accidents 2017 19
Chart 4.2 Percentage share of age of vehicles involved in road
10 20
accidents 2016 & 2017
Chart 4.3: Accidents, Fatality and Injury involving overloaded
11 20
vehicles 2017
Chart 5.1 Percentage share of road user Categories in accident
12 22
fatality in 2017
13 Chart 5.2 Age profile of road accident victims 2017 23
Chart 5.3: Age profile of fatal road accident victims 2017 -
14 24
Percentage share of age groups
15 Chart 6.1: Road accidents by type of licence - 2017 27
Chart 7.1: Percentage share of States/UTs in reduction of road
16 28
accidents in 2017
Chart 7.2: Percentage share of States/UTs in reduction of road
17 29
accident fatalities in 2017
Chart 7.2: Percentage share of top 15 States in total road accidents
18 30
- 2017
Chart 7.4: Percentage share of top 15 States in total road accident
19 31
fatalities - 2017
Chart 7.5: Relationship between share of States/UTs in total road
20 accidents and fatalities to share in population and net domestic product 32
of the country - 2017
Chart 9.1: Month-wise distribution of road accidents and fatalities -
21 36
2017
Chart 10.1: Country-wise Number of Persons Killed per 100,000
22 38
Population

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Annexure

No. Annexure Page Nos.
1 Road Accidents, Persons Killed and Injured: 1970-2017 49
2 Total Number of Road Accidents in India: 2014 to 2017 50
Total Number of Persons Killed in Road Accidents in India: 2014 to
3 51
2017
Total Number of Persons Injured in Road Accidents in India: 2014 to
4 52
2017
5 Total Number of Fatal Road Accidents in States/UTs: 2014-2017 53
6 Severity of Road Accidents in India (State/UT-wise): 201 to 2017 54
7 Type of Road Accidents in States/ UTs in 2017 55
Accidents classified according to Type of Collision during the calendar
8 56-58
year 2017
9 Total Number of Road Accidents on National Highways: 2014 to 2017 59
Total Number of Persons Killed in Road Accidents on National
10 60
Highways: 2014 to 2017
Total Number of Persons Injured in Road Accidents on National
11 61
Highways: 2014 to 2017
Total number of Grievous and Minor Injured Persons in Road
12 62
Accidents on National Highways during the calendar year 2017
13 Total Number of Road Accidents on State Highways: 2014 to 2017 63
Total Number of Persons Killed in Road Accidents on State Highways:
14 64
2014 to 2017
Total Number of Persons Injured in Road Accidents on State
15 65
Highways: 2014 to 2017
Total number of Grievous and Minor Injured Persons in Road
16 66
Accidents on State Highways during the calendar year 2017
Total number of Road Accidents, Persons Killed and Injured on Other
17 67
Roads during the calendar years 2016 & 2017
Total number of Grievous and Minor Injured Persons in Road
18 68
Accidents on all roads during the calendar year 2017
Accidents classified according to Road Environment during the
19 69
calendar year 2017
Accidents classified according to Road Features during the calendar
20 70-71
year 2017
Accidents Classified according to Type of Junctions during the
21 72
calendar year 2017
Accidents Classified according to Type of Traffic Control during the
22 73
calendar year 2017
Accidents Classified according to Type of Weather Condition during
23 74
the calendar year 2017
Accidents classified according to type of impacting vehicles/
24 75-78
objects 2017
Accidents Classified according to Age of impacting Vehicles during the
25 79
calendar year 2017
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26 Accidents classified according to Load Condition of Involved Vehicle 80
Male and Female Persons Killed in Road Accidents in terms of Road
27 81-82
User categories in 2017
Accidents Victims Killed according to classification of age and sex,
28 83
2017
Accidents Classified according to Type of Traffic Violations during the
29 84-85
calendar year 2017
Accidents classified according to Licence of Drivers during the
30 86
calendar year 2017
Accidents Classified according to Use/Non-Use of Safety Device
31 87
(Wearing Helmet) by Victims during the calendar year 2017
Accidents Classified according to Use/Non-Use of Safety Device
32 88
(Wearing Seat Belt) by Victims during the calendar year 2017
Performance of States/UTs in Reducing Number of Road Accidents in
33 89
2017
Performance of States/UTs in Reducing Number of Persons Killed in
34 90
Road Accidents in 2017
Total Number of Accidents, Number of Persons Killed and Number of
35 91
Persons Injured in Road Accidents in Urban & Rural Areas: 2017
Fatal Road Accidents in Rural and Urban Areas during the calendar
36 92
year 2017
Month-wise total number of accidents, persons killed and injured
37 93-95
during the calendar year 2017
38 Road Accidents as per the Time of occurrence 2017 96
Percentage share in Total Registered Motor Vehicles in India as on 31st
39 97
March

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. A total of 4,64,910 road accidents have for the highest share (33.9%) in total
been reported by States and Union accidents and fatalities (29.8%) in 2017.
Territories (UTs) in the calendar year Light vehicles comprising cars, jeeps
2017, claiming 1,47,913 lives and and taxis as a category comes a distant
causing injuries to 4,70,975 persons. second with a share of 24.5 per cent in
total accidents and 21.1 per cent in total
2. For the second consecutive year, the fatalities.
number of road accidents has declined in
2017 over the previous year (2016). 7. In terms of road-user categories, the
Similarly, the number of persons injured share of two-wheeler riders in total
has been on the decline since 2015. In fatality has been highest (33%) in 2017.
percentage terms, the number of Pedestrian road-users comprise 13.8 per
accidents in 2017 has been lower by 3.3 cent of persons killed in road accidents
per cent and injuries by 4.8 per cent over during 2017.
that of the previous year, 2016.
8. Fatal road accident victims largely
3. Significantly, the number of persons constitute young people in the
killed in road accidents during 2017 has productive age groups. Young adults in
been less than that of 2016 by 1.9 per the age group of 18 - 45 years accounted
cent. for 72.1 per cent of victims during 2017.
People in working age group of 18 – 60
4. There has also been a decline in the years accounted for a share of 87.2 per
number of fatal accidents, i.e., accident cent in the total road accident fatalities.
involving at least one death. A total of
1,34,796 fatal accidents were reported in 9. The State of Tamil Nadu has recorded
2017, which is 0.9 per cent lower than highest number of road accidents in
the 2016 figure of 1,36,071. Road 2017, but the number of persons killed in
accident severity measured by the road accident has been highest in Uttar
number of persons killed per 100 Pradesh. Major States that achieved
accidents, however, saw a marginal significant reduction in road accidents
increase of 0.4 percentage points in 2017 and fatalities in 2017 are Tamil Nadu,
over the previous year. Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal.
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were the worst
5. In terms of accidents on road categories, performers recording large increase in
the National Highways accounted for the number of road accidents and
30.4 per cent of total road accidents and fatalities in 2017 as compared to 2016.
36.0 per cent of deaths in 2017.
Accidents on State Highways and other 10. To implement the measures outlined in
roads constitute 25 per cent and 44.6 per the National Road Safety Policy, the
cent respectively. In case of fatality, Ministry has formulated a multi-pronged
State Highways and other roads have road safety strategy based on 4 ‘E’s viz.
accounted for 26.9 per cent and 37.1 per Education, Engineering (both of roads
cent, respectively. and vehicles), Enforcement and
Emergency Care. Road safety has been
6. Among vehicle categories involved in made an integral part of road design at
road accidents, two-wheelers accounted planning stage and safety audit of

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selected stretches of National Highways Corporates to undertake road safety
has been taken up. High priority has related activities under CSR.
been accorded to rectification of black
spots on national highways. 12. Safety standards for vehicles like seat
belts, anti-lock braking system etc. has
11. Model driving training institutes are set been tightened. Under the National
up in States and refresher trainings to Highway Accident Relief Service
drivers of Heavy Motor Vehicle in the Scheme, State Governments are
unorganized sector have been organized. provided cranes and ambulances and the
Advocacy/Publicity campaign on road National Highways Authority of India
safety through the electronic and print also provides ambulances at a distance of
media has been sustained and broadened. every 50 km. on its completed stretches
Road safety activities have been of NHs under its Operation &
included in schedule (vii) of the Maintenance contracts.
Companies Act, 2013 to enable

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