Passengers travel atop a truck in Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, in 2021.
Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/BloombergWhat Makes India’s Roads the Deadliest in the World
Poor conditions, lax enforcement, unsafe vehicles and stray animals lead to more than 900,000 deaths and injuries a year. The government aims to cut road fatalities 50% by 2025.
Two-wheeler rider killed in accident in Karnataka. Four injured as Delhi cop’s car rams into six vehicles. Two killed after car crashes into tree in Kapurthala. Speeding car runs into group of women in Bihar’s Gopalganj, two dead.
Road crashes are an epidemic in India. They kill and disable over 900,000 people every year, more than anywhere in the world, costing India $156 billion, according to the World Bank. The death of former Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry from a collision in September 2022 and a separate incident that injured cricketer Rishabh Pant in December further highlighted the scourge of dangerous roads and how little has been done to fix them.