Largest number of road mishaps in TN, Maha: NCRB

The statistics reveal that 1,05,725 people lost their lives all over India in road accidents in 2006, compared to 98,254 in 2005. The victims of 2006 included 16,548 women also.

Andhra Pradesh leads the list with 12,661 deaths followed by Maharashtra (11,934), Uttar Pradesh (11,520) and Tamil Nadu (11,009).

Out of the total 3,94,432 road mishaps across the country, Tamil Nadu reported a whopping 55,145 cases (14 per cent) while Maharashtra had 48,887 incidents (12.4 per cent).

Karnataka (43,280), Kerala (41,728) and Andhra Pradesh (41,323) were the other main contributors for road accident cases in 2006.

In Delhi, there were 9,699 road accidents in which 2,167 people lost their lives in 2006.

Road accident cases have registered a one per cent increase in 2006 compared to 2005 when the figure was 3,90,378.

Similarly, the casualties have increased by 7.6 per cent in 2006 compared to the previous year.

People travelling in trucks and lorry were the largest chunk of victims in 2006 with 22.6 per cent (23,868) of them using this mode of transport during the time of accident.

Two-wheelers were second in the list with 17.8 per cent (18,833) followed by passengers in buses 11.9 per cent (12,625) and 8.4 per cent pedestrians (8,906).

The month-wise distribution of road accidents shows that more such incidents took place in May (37,109) and December (34,379).

Maximum road accidents were reported in evening during 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. with 15.7 per cent (62,023 accidents) followed by the time period of 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (60,584).

The NCRB figures also note that there were 2,829 (2,537 in 2000) rail-road accidents and 26,165 other railway accidents.

In rail-road accidents, 2,353 people (1,389 in 2005) were killed while 23,574 deaths were reported in other railway accidents category.