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The Greater Chennai City Traffic Police (GCTP) has said that fatalities owed to roadworthy accidents declined by implicit 10% successful 2025 compared to 2024, arsenic of December 23.
While 534 fatalities were recorded up to December 15 past year, the fig reduced to 479 during the corresponding play successful 2025. In addition, grievous wounded cases saw a important 64% drop, falling from 2,093 cases past twelvemonth to 721 this year.
Road accidents rise
However, the full fig of roadworthy accidents accrued to 3,981 this twelvemonth from 3,753 past year, marking a emergence of 6.07%. Police officials said efforts are nether mode to bring mishap numbers down and support them astatine the erstwhile year’s level.
Greater Chennai City Police Commissioner A. Arun said fatalities had been reduced by implicit 10% compared to past year, and grievous wounded cases had dropped significantly. He added that the GCTP would proceed its efforts to trim accidents and guarantee roadworthy information arsenic a apical priority.
According to statistic provided by the GCTP, during the corresponding play past twelvemonth up to December 22, 2024, 3,753 accidents were recorded, resulting successful 534 fatalities. Grievous wounded cases stood astatine 2,140, elemental wounded cases astatine 941, and 138 accidents were reported with nary injuries.
As of December 22, this year, a full of 3,981 accidents were reported, resulting successful 479 fatalities. Of these, 754 cases progressive grievous injuries, 2,630 progressive elemental injuries, and 118 were reported arsenic no-injury accidents, wherever vehicles were damaged but occupants were unharmed.
This year, astir centrifugal accidents occurred during highest hours betwixt 9 a.m. and 12 noon, with 711 incidents reported during this period. This was followed by 615 accidents betwixt 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., and 602 accidents betwixt 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Fewer accidents connected weekends
Accidents were comparatively less connected Saturdays and Sundays than connected weekdays, owing to strict enforcement measures. Statistics amusement 588 accidents connected Saturdays and 578 connected Sundays.
Two-wheeler accidents accounted for a large stock of roadworthy mishaps, with 1,573 specified accidents reported and 2,076 persons either injured oregon killed. In addition, 878 cars, 378 autos, 176 buses, 280 lorries, and 275 vans were progressive successful roadworthy accidents.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) G. Karthikeyan said the GCTP has undertaken assorted steps and remedial measures to trim roadworthy accidents and heighten roadworthy information crossed the metropolis done accrued enforcement, patrolling, and consciousness activities. He added that the GCTP creates impactful consciousness among roadworthy users by urging the nationalist to support roadworthy discipline, travel information guidelines, usage protective gear, and amended themselves connected roadworthy safety.
In coordination with experts, the GCTP has facilitated respective grooming programmes for constabulary unit connected technological approaches to mishap reduction, on with workshops and information acquisition programmes for schoolchildren, autobus drivers, and transportation agents. In summation to consciousness campaigns, the GCTP has strengthened its enforcement strategy by booking much cases for implicit speeding, drunken driving, and riding without helmets done manual checks and technological initiatives specified arsenic ANPR cameras, 2D velocity radar systems, and conveyance interceptor systems crossed Chennai city.
Joint Commissioner of Police (South) P. Vijayakumar said, “We are perpetually monitoring accidents done our real-time monitoring system. If the mishap complaint rises successful immoderate peculiar area, the acrophobic serviceman volition beryllium asked to explicate the origin oregon immoderate lacunae successful enforcement. We are analysing whether accidents are owed to quality mistake oregon infrastructure issues. Furthermore, the GCTP is continuously taking steps to amended roadworthy conditions, signage, and lighting astatine identified hotspots and accident-prone zones. These corporate efforts person led to a important simplification successful roadworthy mishap fatalities compared to past twelvemonth successful Chennai city.”
