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</p><p>Highlights from the report released by India's ministry of road transport:</p><ul><li><p>1,46,133 people were killed in road accidents in India in 2015.</p></li><li><p>There were 5,01,423 road accidents in 2015 i.e 1,374 accidents every day.</p></li><li><p>5,00,279 people were injured in road accidents in 2015.</p></li><li><p>400 road deaths took place every day.</p></li><li><p>Drivers were accounted for 77.1% of the road accidents.</p></li><li><p>Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Uttar Pradesh, account for more than 80% of all road accidents and fatalities.</p></li><li><p>Nearly 8 in 10 accidents were caused by drivers.</p></li></ul><p>Union Minister – Nitin Gadkari, releasing the report on last year's road accidents in the country said he is he deeply pained to know the fact that 17 people died in 57 crashes every hour. Minister admitted that not much has changed after two years of sincere hard work and efforts put in.</p><p>According to the report last year, 10,727 people were killed in crashes due to potholes, speed breakers and roads that were under repair or being constructed or just plain broken ones. Although the total number of fatalities under these title had reduced marginally from 2014, the number of people killed due to potholes rose to 3,416 from 3,039 in the previous year.</p><p>For 2015, Maharashtra saw a massive seven-fold increase for deaths caused by potholes, as per ministries report. Such a high rise clearly indicted what a failure it had been for road-owning agencies to maintain roads. Uttar Pradesh comes as a surprise, the state known for its bad roads has reported to reduce the pot hole deaths by half compared with 2014. In capital only 2 died in 2015 due to potholes, one of them in the last month itself where a man on his motorcycle got stuck in a pothole.</p><p>Nitin Gadkari said, "Let people criticize us, but I want to make the report public. Our two years of dedicated work and sincere efforts has resulted in not much change, but we are committed to changing the scenario as I cannot allow this. My heart fills with immense pain." That all said and stated, the reports also showed that the drivers were accounted for 77.1% of the road accidents in 2015, though minister highlighted that "faulty road engineering" was one of the main causes. The Minister assured that the government is confident of bringing down road fatalities by 50% in the upcoming years through multiple initiatives that include the decision to construct 4-lane highways where the traffic is over 10,000 passenger cars.</p><p></p>