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Maharashtra highway police data revealed that road accidents claimed over 1,000 lives and left 1,195 people critically injured in the Pune rural region in 2018.In Pune city, the number of fatalities because of accidents was 362 in 2018. PUNE: Road accidents and fatalities in the city and the Pune rural region might have for the first time dipped marginally last year since 2015, but the numbers are still a cause for concern. The data revealed that 607 people were seriously injured in road accidents last year in the city. “But losing over 350 lives to accidents in a city in a year is still unacceptable,” said Gadgil, who’s also the programme director of Parisar. The maximum accidents involve collision between motorcycles and four-wheelers..