Archive · 7 Aug 2025
Highway Deaths Rising in India: Over 29,000 Fatalities in 2025
In the first half of 2025, a lot of people sadly died in accidents on India's highways.
The number of deaths is going up, and it's likely to be more than last year.
Even though highways are a small part of all roads, they have a large share of the accidents.
The government is trying to make highways safer by adding things like better signs and fixing the road designs.
They're also looking at why these accidents happen, and trying to fix those problems, such as poor design.
Over 29,000 deaths occurred in national highway accidents in the first six months of 2025.
Fatalities in 2025 are on track to exceed the total of 53,090 deaths in 2024.
National highways account for over 30% of road accident deaths, despite comprising only 2% of the road network.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is implementing measures to reduce deaths.
Road engineering is identified as a significant factor in accident deaths.
- Who
- Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- What
- Increase in fatalities on national highways.
- When
- First six months of 2025.
- Where
- India's national highways
- Why
- To understand the cause of the accident and implement measures to prevent them.
- Deaths in 2025 (Jan-Jun)
- 29,018
- Accidents in 2025 (Jan-Jun)
- 67,933
- Deaths in 2024
- 53,090
- Accidents in 2024
- 1,25,873
- Deaths in 2023
- 53,630
- Accidents in 2023
- 1,23,955