The year 2023 saw the highest number of road accident fatalities in the city, according to data released by Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP).
A total of 909 people were killed in 880 fatal accidents on the city’s roads last year. This is the highest number of fatalities in road accidents the city has recorded. In 2022, 772 people were killed in 752 accidents. Not just that, the total number of accidents has also risen from 3,822 in 2022 to 5,004 in 2023.
However, M.N. Anucheth, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said that while the number of accidents and fatalities were increasing in absolute numbers, the accident fatality rate for every one lakh vehicles on the streets had been declining. Over the last four years itself, the city has added over 25 lakh vehicles. “Moreover, 2020, 2021, and 2022 were pandemic years and outliers,” he said. For instance, the accident fatality rate (deaths in road accidents for every lakh vehicle population) in 2019 was 8.77 and has dipped to 7.5 in 2023, data shows.
