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Accidents don’t happen, they’re caused: Why Indian highways have a strangely high fatality rate

Accidents don’t happen, they’re caused: Why Indian highways have a strangely high fatality rate
Accidents don’t happen, they’re caused: Why Indian highways have a strangely high fatality rate
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India suffers 53 road accidents and 19 deaths every hour. Is it due to poor road infrastructure? On the contrary, India is building roads and highways like never before. Still highways account for 56.1% of the accidents and 60.6% of the fatalities. Who should we blame?

“Bhaiya, aap ake ham logo ko bacha lo…” That was the last call Dharmendra Yadav, 40, a Meerut resident, could give his elder brother before collapsing. Moments before, his car was hit by a bus on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway near Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad. Till then, everything was going according to plan. It was a Tuesday (considered auspicious by many) morning in July. Dharmendra and his brother Narendra Yadav, along with their wives and
( Originally published on Dec 26, 2023 )
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The Economic Times