More lives lost to road accidents than Covid-19 in Noida: Report
India TodayRoad safety continues to be one of the most neglected topics in our country. For instance, in Noida, road accidents have claimed more lives in the last year and the current year than the much-dreaded coronavirus. The two cities in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh have seen 468 lives lost to Covid-19, while road crashes and accidents have so far caused 700 causalities and this number is expected to rise further as the statistics do not include road accidents that have occurred in the month of December. Noida, which is a part of the Delhi-NCR region, has been the single largest contributor to the total caseloads of Uttar Pradesh with 56 cases amounting to 18 per cent of the total reported cases from UP. As per the police statistics, 745 cases of road accidents were reported in 2020, and even though the number receded marginally, still 697 cases were reported in 2021.