Summary:
The Mumbai Traffic Police in collaboration with the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) released the Mumbai Road Safety Report 2018 on Thursday. The report states that a total of 475 Mumbaikars lost their lives in 2018 in road accidents. Madhukar Pandey, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) said road traffic fatalities have indicated a declining trend in Mumbai over the past few years. Dr Sara Whitehead, Public Health Consultant, working with Vital Strategies said, "The United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety aims to stabilise and reduce the forecast level of road traffic deaths around the world. Mumbai has reached 22% till 2018, while other parts of the world are even struggling to achieve that mark.".