Delhi has highest road mishap deaths, Chennai follows

It would appear that Delhi is the most unsafe, even on wheels on roads, as the city wise data released by Union Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways (MoRTH) shows that the city has recorded highest number of deaths — 1,584 — due to road accidents in 2017. It is followed by Chennai and Jaipur with 1,299 and 819 deaths respectively due to road accidents in the same period. In case of Mumbai, 490 deaths were reported due to 3,160 road accidents in 2017.

The top 12 cities — including Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Bengaluru, Agra, Mumbai, Allahabad, Raipur, Meerut and Jabalpur — accounted for 49.7 per cent of road accident deaths reported in a total 50 cities. Among them, Chennai has recorded the highest number of accidents at 7,257, followed by 6,673 accidents in Delhi and with Indore in the thirs spot with 4,513 reported accidents.

In case of Ahmedabad and Jaipur, a total of 1,563 and 2,983 accidents were reported in 2017, in which 336 and 816 people lost their lives respectively. Further, the MoRTH data has revealed that the number of road accidents and fatalities have been drastically reduced in Nashik, Kolkata, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Ludhiana as compared to the previous year.