Road Safety Foundation and Jatri Kalyan Samiti release road accident data every month. According to the Road Safety Foundation, 564 people died on the roads in March. According to the Jatri Kalyan Samiti, 538 people have died. Although the data provided by both the organizations do not match, but we get a rough estimate of road accidents from both.
According to both organizations, the number of road deaths has increased in March as compared to February. According to the data, 194 (34.39 per cent) motorcyclists and riders, 53 (9.39 per cent) bus passengers, 49 (8.68 per cent) truck-covered van-pickup-tractor-trolley-lorry riders, 22 (3.90 per cent) ) microbus-private car-ambulance commuters, 104 (18.43 per cent) three-wheeler commuters (easybike-CNG-autorickshaw-autovan-laguna) were killed in March. Other than locally made vehicles, 24 (4.25 per cent) and 11 (1.95 per cent) deaths occurred in cycles, rickshaws and rickshaw-vans.