New Delhi: The national capital, according to official data, witnessed 2,300 accidents in which over 500 people lost lives in the first five months of this year. Out of these, 495 were fatal accidents, 1,762 simple accidents and 43 non-injury accidents, reported news agency PTI. Around 2,152 people got injured during this period, as per the official data. The data, which gave traffic district-wise information, stated that a total of 505 people have been killed in the accidents.
The outer north district witnessed 56 deaths, as per the data, followed by 50 deaths in northwest district, 46 in southwest and 45 in west district.
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Shahdara witnessed the least number of deaths at 16, while central district reported 19 deaths and New Delhi, Rohini and south districts witnessed 21 deaths.
The southeast district witnessed the maximum number of accidents at 222, followed by southwest 192, outer north 191 and west district 186 accidents.
New Delhi district, as per the data, reported the number of accidents at 75 followed by Shahdara (77) and Rohini district (100).
The data added that the maximum number of people (211) got injured in southeast district and the lowest number was reported in Shahdara (63).
The city, as per the Delhi Police data, witnessed 1,206 fatal road accidents last year in which 1,239 people were killed.
The data also said that fatal accidents increased by 3.6 percent (from 1,163 deaths to 1,206 deaths) in 2021 as compared to 2020.