Nashik rural: 862 people killed in accidents in 2021

Nashik: Negligent and rash driving on roads in the rural areas of the district have led to the death of 862 people last year.
In the rural district, the number of deaths in road accidents last year have been 7% more than deaths in 2020. Superintendent of police Sachin Patil (Nashik rural) said that the accidents were on the higher side last year due to the strict Covid-19 restrictions in 2020.He said as against the death of 801 people in 746 accidents in 2020, 862 people were killed in 788 accidents in 2021.
The police are in the process of revising the list of black spots, which are the spots of frequent accidents so that necessary infrastructure work can be taken up to prevent them.
Nonetheless, rash driving and breaking traffic rules were causing most of the accidents, he said.
Earlier, there were a total of 98 black spots in the rural district, on which infrastructure work was carried out.
However, most of the accidents have been reported on the Mumbai Agra highway in and around Malegaon, Chandwad, Igatpuri and Ghoti. The Sinnar-Ghoti road, Sinnar-Shirdi road also witness a large number of accidents.
The police officials of the rural district said wrong-side driving on the highway, three people on bikes, not wearing helmets, sitting on the road dividers of the highway during the night were common, which all lead to road accidents.
Meanwhile, the city police have registered 185 death. With this, the total number of deaths in road accidents was 1,047 deaths in Nashik district in 2021.
While the police are continuously spreading traffic awareness among people, a section of motorists continues to overlook traffic rules which lead to road accidents.
Last year, residents of Malegaon had also agitated demanding improvement of the road condition of the Mumbai Agra highway which was leading to a maximum number of accidents.