
Number of minor injury road accidents in India 2015-2021
In 2021, India witnessed over 119 thousand minor injury road accidents across the country. This formed 29 percent of the total road accidents that occurred in that year. Road accidents have been a major cause for concern across the Indian subcontinent. In 2021 alone, the country reported over 153 thousand fatalities due to road accidents. Each year, about three to five percent of the country’s GDP was invested in road accidents.