VIJAYAWADA: In the first nine months of 2017, 8,210 people died in Andhra Pradesh in 30,045 road accidents — 7.52 per cent of the country’s total — placing AP third on the list of states with the highest accident rates.w One person gets killed in the country every 3.5 minutes in road accidents. It is feared that this year’s death rate could be higher than that of 2016. As per statistics provided by National Highways Authorities of India (NHAI), there were 24,880 road mishaps in 2016 and 9,541 deaths, accounting for 9.2 percent of the country’s total in the time period.
Transport Department officials who analysed the accidents in the state have found that hours between 2 am and 5 am are the most dangerous, accounting for 60 per cent of the total accidents. Forty per cent of the total mishaps in the state involved speeding and 20 per cent were caused due to drunken driving.
Negligent driving accounted for 18 per cent, driving without rest led to 12 percent of the total figure and only five per cent of the accidents were due to technical failures.
As many as 11 National Highways criss cross Andhra Pradesh along a length of a 3,535 km. There is a proposal on the anvil to build more national highways and increase the total length of the highways
in the state. Further, the state has 14,572 state highways and several more thousands of kilometers of roads under the Panchayat Raj Department.
Reasons for
Road Accidents
40% Over Speed
20 % Drunken Drive
18% Negligence
12% Driving sans rest
5% Due to lack of proper signages
5% Technical issues