Mumbai: Last year in Maharashtra, in 2022, a total of 14,883 people died in road accidents. Whereas three years ago in 2019 this figure was 12,788. This information has been revealed in the official figures. According to official figures, the number of people who died in road accidents in the state during three years has increased by 2,095 while the number of such incidents has increased by 144 in 2022 as compared to three years ago.
As per the data, there were 33,069 road accidents in the state last year as compared to 32,925 in 2019. While the number of road accidents increased by 0.44 percent in 2022 as compared to 2019, the death rate increased by 16.38 percent, although the number of people injured in accidents decreased from 28,628 to 27,218 during this period. The issue of road accidents came into the limelight only then. When a bus fell into a gorge on Saturday (April 15) on the old Mumbai-Pune highway in the Raigad district of the state. Thirteen people, including five minors, died and 29 were injured when the bus fell into a gorge.
The bus was going from Pune to Mumbai
A total of 42 people were on board the bus and it was going from Pune to Mumbai when it fell into a 300 feet deep gorge near Bor Ghat mountain. This accident happened near Khopoli, 70 km from Mumbai. Bor Ghat Mountain is also known as Khandala Ghat. Maharashtra saw a decrease in road accidents and deaths in 2020 due to the lockdown implemented in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Maharashtra has over four crore vehicles
But this number increased in 2021 and this trend continued in 2022. Maharashtra has over four crore vehicles and the density of vehicles on the state’s 3.25 lakh kilometer road network, including about 18,000 km of national highways, is increasing every year. According to the latest Economic Survey report of Maharashtra published on March 8, as of January 1, 2023, the number of vehicles in the state was 4.33 crore.
Official figures tell these things
According to official data, in Maharashtra’s 34 districts and 11 major cities, the number of road accidents, deaths, and injuries has increased in most of the districts and cities. There are only a few of these districts and cities where the number of accidents has come down. The highest increase in road accidents in the year 2022 was in Yavatmal (454), followed by Ahmednagar (256), Pimpri-Chinchwad city (249), Pune rural (213), and Palghar district (132). The maximum increase in the death rate was in Ahmednagar (135), followed by Buldhana (96), Chandrapur (75), Yavatmal (72), and Solapur districts (69).
