Road accident stands as a major killer in Nepal. On an average, 1,700 people are killed and thousands injured in road accidents every year. On the heels of a string of accidents, concerns have grown about road safety in Nepal.Despite series of fatalities, the government has not been able to dismantle the transport syndicate and upgrade poor road infrastructure, which many studies show are major causes of accidents.A figure maintained by Nepal Police shows that at least 277 people lost their lives to road accidents as of yesterday with August 15 Kavre bus mishap being the deadliest one that killed 31 people and today’s accident on the Narayanghat-Mugling stretch the second-deadliest so far this fiscal. The higher-up authorities in the government are just doing nothing except paying lip-service by issuing verbal directives to subordinate bodies to ‘curb road accidents’. The country witnessed an average of 27 accidents and five deaths every day in road accidents in the fiscal 2015/16, according to statistics. As many as 2,006 people died in road accidents in 2015/16 against 2,004 in the fiscal 2014/15.In the last fiscal, driver’s negligence caused 7,432 road accidents followed by 1,273 due to speeding, 321 due to drink driving, 321 due to recklessness of passengers, and 226 while overtaking vehicles. With the festive season just around the corner, more road accidents can be expected due to increased pressure of vehicles and passengers on the national highways, warned DIG Madhav Prasad Joshi, NP spokesperson.
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