Registered motor vehicles in Kerala India FY 2007-2020
Road accidents in Kerala
The number of road accidents across the state was around 40 thousand in 2018. Over-speeding was the main cause for road accidents in the south Asian country. In the World Road Statistics for 2018, India ranked first out of 200 reported countries in terms of road accidents.
Road infrastructure
In 2017, the length of state highways across Kerala was approximately 4.3 thousand kilometers. The same year, over 240 thousand kilometers of road length was added to the state. India had the second largest road network in the world with a total length of over five million kilometers. With the number of vehicles in the country increasing each year since 1951, mishaps on roads have become a growing cause for concern for the Indian government.