Speedbreakers kill over 9 a day, half of deaths in UP, TN & Karnataka

SPEEDBREAKERS ACCOUNT for an average 10 deaths a day in the country, data from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways show.

Data compiled by the ministry’s Transport Research Wing put the number of speedbreaker-related accidents in India in 2015 at over 11,000, which resulted in 3,409 deaths. The figures were broadly in line with those for the year before that, when speedbreakers led to an average 30 accidents and 10 fatalities every day.

The research wing started tracking accidents caused by speedbreakers as a separate category in 2014, collecting figures from police in the states. The numbers for 2016 are yet to be compiled.

In 2015, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh accounted for 6,073 — 55 per cent of the total — accidents caused by speedbreakers. The most deaths in such accidents that