Raigad: Two passengers were reportedly killed while 55 others were injured after a bus met with an accident at the Tamhini Ghat near Madgaon and Pune in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The bus was carrying a total of 60 passengers when it met with an accident while it was headed downwards from a mountain.
Upon receiving the information about the accident, the police from Mahad and Madgaon arrived at the site along with ambulances and began their relief work. The passengers injured in the incident were admitted to a nearby hospital. The accident took place in the early hours of Saturday morning.
As per a report by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, India witnessed a total of 53 accidents and 19 deaths every hour, which is an average of 1,264 accidents and 42 deaths on a daily basis as a result of road crashes last year. The report further said that there were 4,61,312 road accidents across India, which claimed 1,68,491 lives. Last year, the number of road accidents rose by 11.9% while the number of deaths rose by 9.4%.
The government report noted that the increasing severity “underscores the need for improved trauma care and traffic calming measures aimed at reducing crash impact parameters.”
According to the government report, the age-wise breakdown of the data indicates that most of the people who were killed fall in the 18-45 age bracket (66.5%). At the same time, 9,528 children also died as a result of road crashes in 2022, stating that around 26 children died daily during the year.
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