Kashmir Looses 1000 people to Accidents every Year, Highest in India
September 06
While the government is maintaining that it is trying to make roads safe, every year around 1000 people die in road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir.
The state has also topped the list of “high accidental death-prone areas” in a National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) survey.
The survey has found that an accident in Jammu Kashmir State has a 64 percent chance of causing death as opposed to 36.4 percent for all of India.
Data also show that more than half of those killed in road accidents were in the productive age group of 15 to 34, pointing to a calamitous loss of young lives.
This is a public health emergency that requires immediate action. As a state, we are slowly waking up to the fact that we lead in road crash deaths and injuries. Unfortunately, we are at a primiti...
