All Trauma Data from India Primarily emanates out of Road Traffic Injury estimates
- Road-traffic accidents are increasing at annual rate of 3%.
- In 1997, 10.1% of all deaths in India were due to accidents and injuries.
- A vehicular accident is reported every 2 minutes and a death every 8 minutes on Indian roads.
- During 1998-
- nearly 80,000 lives were lost and 330,000 people were injured
- 78% were men in age group of 20-44 years, causing significant impact on productivity
- A trauma-related death occurs in India every 1.9 minutes.
- The majority of fatal road-traffic accident victims are pedestrians, two wheeler riders and bicyclists.