Archive · 10 Sep 2026
Overspeeding Drives Madhya Pradesh Road Deaths, Data Shows
A report studied road crashes in Madhya Pradesh from 2020 to 2025.
It found that driving too fast was the biggest danger.
Overspeeding was connected to 12,818 deaths in 2025 alone.
It also caused 46,904 crashes and 49,204 injuries that year.
Other dangerous behaviors showed some improvement.
Crashes linked to mobile-phone use fell sharply.
Red-light-jumping crashes also decreased, although its deaths rose from one to two.
Wrong-side driving declined in crashes and deaths, but injuries barely changed.
Drunk-driving crashes stayed nearly the same while deaths and injuries increased.
Overspeeding caused 65,289 deaths in Madhya Pradesh from 2020 through 2025.
In 2025, overspeeding was linked to 46,904 accidents, 12,818 deaths and 49,204 injuries.
Overspeeding deaths in 2025 were nearly 18 times those from wrong-side driving and almost 47 times those from drunk driving.
Mobile-phone-related accidents fell from 821 in 2023 to 488 in 2025, while fatalities declined from 185 to 112.
Wrong-side-driving and red-light-jumping crashes generally decreased, although drunk-driving fatalities and injuries increased between 2023 and 2025.
- Who
- Road users in Madhya Pradesh, according to data compiled by PTRI.
- What
- Overspeeding remained the leading reported cause of road accidents, deaths and injuries from 2020 through 2025.
- When
- The data covers 2020-2025, with comparisons focused on 2023 and 2025.
- Where
- On roads in Madhya Pradesh, with the report filed from Bhopal.
- Why
- The data highlights overspeeding as the state’s most serious traffic-safety concern despite improvements in several other violations.
- Period studied
- 2020-2025
- Overspeeding deaths, 2020-2025
- 65,289
- Overspeeding accidents in 2025
- 46,904
- Overspeeding deaths in 2025
- 12,818
- Overspeeding injuries in 2025
- 49,204
- Wrong-side-driving deaths in 2025
- 713
- Drunk-driving deaths in 2025
- 271