Share of people injured in road accidents India 2018, by vehicle age
In 2018, the share of road accident injuries involving vehicles less than five years old amounted to about 37 percent across India. Each year, about three to five percent of the GDP of the country was invested in road accidents. About 70 percent of accidents involved young Indians. The country has about one percent of the global vehicle population but it accounted for six percent of the world's road traffic accidents.