NEW DELHI: More than 90 per cent of road deaths in 2016 were attributed to rash and negligent driving with the latest National Crime Research Bureau NCRB ) statistics revealing 1.5 lakh deaths in 1.35 lakh road accidents due to delinquent driving.The crime data released by the bureau covers all crimes booked under Indian Panel Code . For example, in 2015 out of a total 1.49 lakh people dying in road accidents, 1.34 lakh were due to rash and negligent driving. This works out to be 90.3 per cent.It has sometimes been argued that road accident deaths are entered under negligent and rash driving in FIRs as piecing together accidents is not always easy. "There is no clause in IPC to put a road accident caused due to pothole or bad engineering. "Across the world countries that have brought down road deaths have first done work to get the right data, find the exact reasons.

Source: Times of India December 02, 2017 22:41 UTC