Pune, Nashik and Nagpur are among the ten districts that account for over 50% of state fatalities as per recent data from Maharashtra transport commissionerate and highway traffic police. Others include Ahmednagar, Solapur, Thane, Chhatrapati Sambhaji nagar, Jalgaon, Satara, and Beed. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

At a media workshop organised by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday, a special session on road safety highlighted that India records over 150,000 road deaths every year, with children and young people among the most affected.

Children and adolescents (0–19 years) represent roughly 11 percent of all road fatalities in Maharashtra (Ministry of Road Traffic and Highways MoRTH 2024) and according to the UNICEF – Education Department Survey (2024), only 29 percent of

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