As compared to an average day, an alarming increase of 96.5 per cent was registered in the number of road accidents in the State on the New Year’s Day on January 1, according to the Emergency Service ‘108 Express’.
On an average 114 cases of road accidents are received by the emergency service on any given day. However, this figure rose to 224 on the first day of the new year. The figure was higher than usual even on December 31. Maximum number of accident cases were registered in Rajnandgaon district, said 108 Sanjeevani Express Public Private Partnership (PPP) Officer Shibu Kumar.
No cases of road accidents were reported to 108 service from the tribal districts of Bijapur, Sukma and Kondagaon on January 1.
