Since 2015, road accidents decline, not deaths

the goan I network | JULY 21, 2018, 02:30 AM IST
Since 2015, road accidents decline, not deaths

PANAJI   

The number of road accidents recorded in the State have marginally declined each year since 2015, but number of people dying on Goa’s roads is not.   

According to statistics tabled in the Goa Legislative Assembly by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, deaths on Goa’s roads rose from 324 in 2015 to 333 in 2017. The 340 deaths in 2016 were the highest.   

This year, the number of people killed in road accidents in the first six months is 134, which is much less than half the figure last year. But mishaps normally rise in the peak tourism season months 

of November and December.   

In a written reply to a query raised by Luizinho Faleiro, the CM said traffic policing resulted in a whopping 6439 licences being sent for suspension to the Regional Transport Office (RTO) in the first six months this year. 

The figure is significantly higher than the 4,362 licences reported for suspension last year, according to Parrikar’s written reply.   

The statistics furnished by Parrikar also show a significant spike in the number of drunken driving cases booked this year. In the first six months, 2792 cases were booked against inebriated drivers. In 2017, the figure of those caught driving when drunk was 3319.   

Parrikar also told Faleiro in the written reply that in 2017 two-lakh two-wheeler riders were booked for not wearing safety headgear, a significant 40 per cent higher than the 1.55 lakh cases booked the previous year. 

In the first six months this year, the traffic cops have already netted 1.37 lakhs two-wheeler riders who skipped wearing helmets.   

Revenues netted in fines have also significantly risen in 2017 and the first half of this year.   

While Rs 6.32 crore was collected in 2017, this year the cops have already raked in Rs 4.92 crore in fines, Parrikar said.   


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