ROADS OR BATTLEFIELDS

WITHOUT A NUCLEAR WAR INDIA LOSES 1,00,000 OF HER PEOPLE EVERY YEAR.

4,97,686 ACCIDENTS OCCURRED ON INDIAN ROADS IN THE YEAR 2011.

Roads are there to take us to our destination. But today our roads are the real battlefields where these mad  machines crush men out of their lives and  maim millions. This is not only a social issue but  purely an environmental  issue too. More machines with more power- definitely there would be more casualties.  India ranks No.1. in terms of number of accidents and casualties for over a decade now. A lakh and more per year. We celebrated that polio has been eradicated from India ( we are grateful  to the people of  America who made us this possible) but more and more physically challenged are added to the society  every day.

In Chennai  city alone the casualty was 1411 in the year 2012.  Almost 3 persons a day. The following table clearly amplifies the fact and the people of the country should do some soul searching to stop this avoidable incidents. 


People don't require a degree in ACCIDENTS PREVENTION & FIRST AID to avoid accidents. First they must realize roads are not F1 tracks but mere earth flattened to smoothen our journey. Next they should respect other's lives before loving their lives. However I've prepared 100 tips for road safety which is in Tamil and soon I'd post them too.

See the enormity of the crisis.

Total Number of Road Accidents in India during 2003-2011

Sl. No.	States/UTs	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
1	Andhra Pradesh	34,826	38,940	37,131	43,559	44,325	42,657	43,600	44,599	44,165
2	Arunachal Pradesh	245	241	231	250	240	280	306	293	263
3	Assam	3,262	3,688	4,258	4,694	4,403	4,683	4,869	5,828	6,569
4	Bihar	6,141	4,027	3,768	5,594	7,774	8,991	10,065	11,033	10,673
5	Chhattisgarh	10,521	10,600	11,164	11,934	12,296	12,945	12,888	13,664	14,108
6	Goa	3,244	3,525	3,577	3,707	4,020	4,178	4,165	4,572	4,560
7	Gujarat	30,604	30,630	30,515	31,547	33,623	33,671	31,034	30,114	30,205
8	Haryana	8,690	9,321	9,298	10,314	11,998	11,596	11,915	11,195	11,128
9	Himachal Pradesh	2,680	2,808	2,797	2,727	2,955	2,756	3,051	3,069	3,099
10	Jammu & Kashmir	5,904	6,257	5,664	5,593	5,864	5,326	5,945	6,134	6,655
11	Jharkhand	4,211	4,614	5,013	4,980	5,285	4,985	4,996	5,521	5,451
12	Karnataka	37,658	38,869	40,330	43,411	46,363	46,279	45,190	46,250	44,731
13	Kerala	39,496	41,219	42,295	41,728	39,917	37,263	35,433	35,082	35,216
14	Madhya Pradesh	30,164	32,445	35,123	38,041	41,981	43,852	47,267	50,023	49,406
15	Maharashtra	65,686	67,720	72,408	75,413	73,661	75,527	71,996	71,289	68,438
16	Manipur	523	468	600	521	538	573	578	602	692
17	Meghalaya	617	433	428	435	300	294	398	474	599
18	Mizoram	122	83	96	95	77	110	86	125	97
19	Nagaland	101	140	226	194	239	76	63	35	39
20	Odisha	6,668	7,278	7,593	7,729	8,213	8,181	8,887	9,413	9,398
21	Punjab	4,429	4,346	4,599	4,927	5,208	5,115	5,570	5,507	6,513
22	Rajasthan	21,933	23,243	23,115	23,348	23,885	23,704	25,114	24,302	23,245
23	Sikkim	131	159	189	188	150	196	564	186	406
24	Tamil Nadu	51,025	52,508	53,866	55,145	59,140	60,409	60,794	64,996	65,873
25	Tripura	676	645	657	793	801	767	865	901	834
26	Uttarakhand	1,222	1,252	1,332	1,461	1,529	1,417	1,401	1,493	1,508
27	Uttar Pradesh	14,286	18,493	18,325	19,489	21,522	25,684	28,155	28,362	29,285
28	West Bengal	10,444	14,431	12,597	11,324	11,660	12,206	11,134	14,888	14,945
29	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	180	215	205	154	173	191	271	285	234
30	Chandigarh	442	417	530	517	534	482	424	456	437
31	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	73	111	127	103	116	116	79	96	103
32	Daman & Diu	72	61	62	57	60	50	63	48	50
33	Delhi	8,863	9,087	9,351	9,299	8,620	8,435	7,516	7,260	7,281
34	Lakshadweep	1	3	5	10	2	12	4	4	-
35	Puducherry	1,586	1,633	1,780	1,639	1,744	1,697	1,698	1,529	1,480
Total	All India	406,726	429,910	439,255	460,920	479,216	484,704	486,384	499,628	497,686