India recorded 1.20 lakh instances of “negligent deaths related to road accidents” in 2020 – a median of 328 individuals lose their lives each day, regardless of the Covid-19 lockdown, in line with authorities information.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in its annual ‘Crime India’ report for 2020, revealed that 3.92 lakh individuals misplaced their lives in three years as a consequence of negligence associated to highway accidents. While 1.20 lakh such deaths had been recorded. 2020, the figures had been 1.36 lakh in 2019 and 1.35 lakh in 2018, the information confirmed.
The nation has reported 1.35 lakh “hit and run” instances since 2018, in line with the report of the NCRB, which features underneath the Union Home Ministry.
In 2020 alone, there have been 41,196 instances of “hit and run”, in comparison with 47,504 in 2019 and 47,028 in 2018, the report confirmed.
According to the information, on a median 112 instances of “hit and run” had been reported each day throughout the nation within the final one 12 months.
The “injury” instances as a consequence of dashing or reckless driving on a public highway had been 1.30 lakh in 2020, 1.60 lakh in 2019 and 1.66 lakh in 2018, whereas the “grave injury” instances had been 85,920, 1.12 lakh and 1.08 lakh. respectively, the information confirmed.
Meanwhile, 52 instances of demise as a consequence of negligence in rail accidents had been registered throughout the nation in 2020, 55 in 2019 and 35 in 2018.
NCRB information exhibits that in 2020, India registered 133 instances of “deaths due to medical negligence”, up from 201 in 2019 and 218 in 2018.
According to the report, there have been 51 instances of “deaths due to negligence of civic bodies” in 2020, in comparison with 147 in 2019 and 40 in 2018.
It confirmed that 6,367 instances of “other negligence deaths” had been reported throughout the nation in 2020, up from 7,912 in 2019 and eight,687 in 2018.
The NCRB report acknowledged that the nation remained underneath full lockdown from March 25, 2020 to May 31, 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, throughout which motion in public locations was “very limited”.
“There has been a decline in instances registered underneath offenses in opposition to ladies, youngsters and senior residents, theft, theft, dacoity and dacoity, whereas these registered underneath ‘disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant’ (Section 188) because of enforcement associated to COVID There has been a rise in instances. IPC)’, underneath ‘Other IPC Offenses’ and underneath ‘Other State Local Act’.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
