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Drive safe, walk safe: Road mishap causalities on all time high
Saurabh Sharma
Lucknow: Road accidents claim hundred of live every day and sadly the year 2015 was no different, More than 17,000 people lost their lives in 2015, according to statistics issued by Uttar Pradesh traffic police on social media site ‘facebook’ on Wednesday.
Another shocker that these fugures suggest that 67 per cent of road accident victims were male.
वर्ष 2015 में उत्तर प्रदेश में हुई #सड़क #दुर्घटनाओं में कुल 17666 व्यक्तियों की अकाल मृत्यु हुई । जिसमें 67 प्रतिशत...
Posted by Uttar Pradesh Traffic Police on Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Let us have a look of accidents in 2015 in the table below:
| Fatal injuries | Grevious injuries | Minor injuries | No injuries | Total accidents | |
| Male | 11826 | 10720 | 5638 | 413 | 28597 |
| Female | 5840 | 4207 | 2640 | 207 | 12894 |
People died twice in road accident than criminal activities:
The another report of the Uttar Pradesh traffic police suggested that causalities of road mishaps are twice the number who died in various criminal incidents.
विगत 5 वर्षो में उत्तर प्रदेश में हुई सड़क दुर्घटनाओं तथा अपराध के आकड़ों का विश्लेषण करने पर यह पाया गया है कि उत्तर...Posted by Uttar Pradesh Traffic Police on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Here are the figures:
| Year | Road accidents | Crime related deaths |
| 2009 | 7184 | 14683 |
| 2010 | 7315 | 15175 |
| 2011 | 8478 | 27512 |
| 2012 | 8447 | 16149 |
| 2013 | 9234 | 16004 |
