Hyderabad: Hundreds of people die every day across the state, but road accidents are probably the most avoidable means of death. Statistics suggest that road accidents claim about 41 lives each day i

Visakhapatnam: Though over-speeding of vehicles is a major cause for the number of road accidents and fatal deaths in and around Vizag, officials of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) failed to a

After the dual burdens of communicable and non-communicable diseases, India is now faced with a “triple-disease burden” with road injuries and deaths adding a third dimension.

Communicable and non-co

In a little less than two decades, Tamil Nadu’s vehicle population has increased by 730%.

With several thousand vehicles being added per day, the number of vehicles in the state is inching towards 1

This might look like a mishap in itself at first sight, given the number of road accidents in the city every day, but it comes straight from the top traffic cop: The number of accidents in Hyderabad h

The state continues to top the chart among all the other states in the country when it comes to road accidents.

Twenty per cent of these accidents are due to drunken driving, a smaller number of acci

A total of 1,36,834 lives were lost in road accidents in the country in 2011 with Tamil Nadu topping the list and Andhra Pradesh in fourth position with 41,066 casualties, and the second highest fatal