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Child road safety crisis
February 11 , 2025
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- A national roadmap for child and adolescent road safety in India, released on February 4 by UNICEF in collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety at NIMHANS.
- It highlights alarming figures on road traffic injuries (RTIs) among children.
- RTIs are now the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in India, accounting for 10% of all road crash fatalities.
- Every day, nearly 45 children under 18 lose their lives in road crashes across the country.
- In 2022 alone, 16,443 fatalities were recorded in this age group, though actual numbers maybe 20% higher due to underreporting.
- Between 2011 and 2022, an estimated 198,236 children and adolescents lost their lives in road crashes.
- Notably, 75% of these fatalities occurred among 14- to 17-year-olds, and the numbers more than doubled in this group over the past decade.
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