Comments
Contrary to popular perception, Indian roads witnessed more accidents on bright sunny days as compared with rainy or foggy days, in 2017, according to a government data.
A massive 3.4 lakh road crashes of the total 4.7 lakh accidents last year occurred on sunny clear days, as per the report on accidents in 2017 by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
Reduced visibility
Accidents under adverse weather conditions such as heavy rain, fog and hail/sleet accounted for only 16 per cent of total road accidents last year.
“Adverse weather conditions such as heavy rain, thick fog and hail storms make driving riskier as visibility reduces and road surface gets slippery. The data of road accidents for 2017, however, shows that almost 3/4th of the accidents took place under sunny/clear weather,” the report said.
Of the 4.70 lakh road accidents last year, 1.47 lakh people lost their lives, it said. The data showed bright clear days witnessed 73.3 per cent of India’s total road crashes in 2017.
Contrary to popular perception, rainy days saw just 9.5 per cent of India’s road crashes in which 8.9 per cent people were killed.
Foggy and misty days witnessed 26,982 accidents in which 7.5 per cent died.
Comments
COMMENT NOW
Comments
Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.
We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of TheHindu Businessline and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.