{"id":109021,"date":"2021-02-22T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=109021"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:16:15","slug":"road-accident-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/road-accident-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Road accident statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : World Bank released road accident statistics in India on February 13, 2021. How much India\u2019s share in global death in road accidents ?<br><\/strong>(a) 11 percent<br>(b) 21 percent<br>(c) 06 percent<br>(d) 31 percent<br><strong>Ans.(a)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>World Bank released road accident statistics in India on February 13, 2021.<\/li><li>The report titled &#8212; &#8216;Traffic Crash Injuries And Disabilities: The Burden on Indian Society\u2019, prepared in association with Save Life Foundation reveals statistics of Indian road accidents.<\/li><li>Highlights<\/li><li>Highlights of the report are given below &#8212;<\/li><li>(a)India<\/li><li>India tops the world in road crash deaths (WHO,2018), with more than 400 fatalities per day.<\/li><li>India has 1% of the world\u2019s vehicles but accounts for 11% of all road accident deaths and 6% of total road crashes(MoRTH, 2018).<\/li><li>In the last decade alone, road crashes have killed 1.3 million and injured over 5 million in India.<\/li><li>(b)Global scenario<\/li><li>Globally, road crashes kill 1.35 million people and injured 50 million people every year; or more than 3000 persons every day.<\/li><li>Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) are the 8th leading cause of death globally and leading cause of death among children and young adults aged 5-29.<\/li><li>There is ample evidence to suggest that RTIs affect the working age population most severely.<\/li><li>SaveLIFE Foundation<\/li><li>It is a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to improving road safety and emergency medical care across India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2021\/02\/13\/road-crashes-in-india-increase-household-poverty-and-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2021\/02\/13\/road-crashes-in-india-increase-household-poverty-and-debt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : World Bank released road accident statistics in India on February 13, 2021. How much India\u2019s share in global death in road accidents ?(a) 11 percent(b) 21 percent(c) 06 percent(d) 31 percentAns.(a)Related facts World Bank released road accident statistics in India on February 13, 2021. The report titled &#8212; &#8216;Traffic Crash Injuries And Disabilities: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":109022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-109021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109023,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109021\/revisions\/109023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}