Kanpur: Despite tough traffic rules the road accidents are not going downwards. Deaths and injury cases are increasing day by day. If we look at the figures of deaths from the year 2015 to 2019 it gives us a clear rising trend. The number of deaths was 468 in the year 2015 which increased to 531 in the year 2019.
Various reasons were given for deaths occurring on the roads. Potholes, stunts and negligence towards the traffic rules are normally defined for death cases on the road.
Owing to potholed roads the vehicles often lose its balance thereby causing injury and death even. Fast speeding vehicles on such bad roads also cause accidents.
Vehicle users riding the two-wheelers without the use of helmet faced deaths on uneven potholed roads. Their numbers stand in more than one hundred in the past. In the course of showing stunts as many as eight bikers died while about 40 bikers lost their lives due to fast running.
Making his points the CO (traffic) Ajit Kumar Rajak said that bad or poor condition of the roads also caused road accidents.
The number of injured drivers was 783 in the year 2015, 691 in the year 2016, 691 in 2017, which rose to 891 in the year 2018.
In the meantime the State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officers concerned to make the roads free from potholes by Nov 15 this year. He has expressed his grave annoyance on the poor condition of the roads in the state.
