Aizawl, Nov 19 : Road accidents have claimed 226 lives in Mizoram during the past three years.
State Transport Minister P C Zoramsangliana said here today that the number of accidents involving vehicles from January 2007 till August 2010 stood at 361, which killed 226 people and injured 611.
According to official records, 2007 witnessed 77 road accidents which claimed 50 lives and injured 65. In the following year, 110 road accidents were registered, which claimed 63 people and injured 185 others.
This year till August, 88 road accidents have taken place and claimed 53 lives and injured 158, against 86 road accidents, 60 dead and 203 injured during 2009.
Zoramsangliana expressed regrets that despite the transport departments constant efforts, the number of road accidents could not come down.
''Since 75 per cent of these accidents are said to be caused by drivers error, most of them could have been averted if the drivers had been more careful,'' said the Transport Minister at a press conference called ahead of Road Safety Week to be observed from November 22.
Meanwhile, the number of vehicles registered in Mizoram till March this year stood at 80,188, of which 3,916 were government vehicles. Two-wheelers constituted 53.33 per cent of the vehicles registered in the state.
The population of two-wheelers in the state capital has tremendously increased during the past few years owing to increasing traffic congestion.
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