As many as 26,770 human beings died in street injuries at the country wide highways throughout India withinside the first six months (January-June) of 2025. Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, on Wednesday has knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha that as many as 52,609 deadly injuries came about in 2024 at the country wide highways throughout the u . s ..

The union minister knowledgeable the Parliament that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has hooked up the Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) on excessive visitors density country wide highways and country wide expressways inclusive of Delhi-Meerut Expressway, Trans-Haryana, Eastern Peripheral Expressway, Delhi Mumbai Expressway, etc. "ATMS has provisions for numerous digital enforcement gadgets which assist in fast identity of incidents on motorway stretches and successfully reveal highways, thereby enhancing the reaction time of the on-webweb page assistance," he stated.

Gadkari additionally stated that during new tasks at the excessive-density and excessive-velocity corridors of NHAI, set up of ATMS is normally part of the mission. Further, ATMS is likewise carried out as a standalone mission in already built crucial corridors, he stated. Responding to a separate question, the union minister stated that street protection audit has been carried out for 112,561 km of country wide highways over the past 3 years.

Road injuries are a primary public fitness situation in India, with greater than 450,000 mentioned injuries chargeable for over 150,000 deaths in 2022. Every year, the u . s . witnesses lakhs of street injuries, which bring about the deaths of many human beings, even as leaving a bigger quantity of human beings wounded and regularly seriously handicapped as well. Two-wheelers are regularly the maximum worried cars in deadly street injuries. Some of the important thing motives in the back of the street injuries on country wide highways and country wide expressways encompass overspeeding, using two-wheelers with out helmets, etc. Pedestrians now no longer the usage of the right underpasses or precise locations for crossing the roads is likewise a primary cause in the back of many street injuries.

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