New Delhi: Kerala, India’s south-western state, has added another bad feather to its cap.
Two of its major cities have taken the first two places for “rash driving” or road rage cases.
Close behind Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram were Chennai, capital of neighboring Tamil Nadu, and Delhi, the national capital, reveals the compilation of data based on cases registered by state police departments in the 53 major cities.
A total of 96,648 such cases were reported across the country and at least 99,822 people were left injured. This is almost one fifth of the total injury reported in 2014 involving road crash cases.
Among these cities, the rate of such rash driving and road rage cases per 100,000 people is also highest with 634 recorded in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram recording 522 cases. The national average was little over 60.
Sources said the main reasons behind high rate of rash driving and road rage cases in Kerala included high volume of vehicles and less road space with little expansion of highways happening in the recent years. They added these two were also the main commercial cities and Kochi has emerged as a cosmopolitan city.
Interestingly, even Indore in Madhya Pradesh recorded over 4,100 such incidences which left equal number of people injured in the crashes, The Times of India reported.
Kerala, which sells itself as the God’s own country in tourism circles, tops the list of suicide cases in India.
According to the NCRB report, at all India level a total of 409,000 rash driving and road rage cases were reported in 2014 and at least 479,000 people were left injured. Kerala registered high number of these cases at 109,000.
Lakshadweep reported only one such incident.