SRINAGAR: The Government has said that Jammu and Kashmir reported 28,510 road accidents between 2020 and 2024, resulting in 4,031 deaths, according to figures placed before Parliament. The data shows that the Union Territory continued to experience a high burden of crashes, with over-speeding remaining the dominant cause of both accidents and fatalities. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

Across five years, the accident numbers rose from 4,860 in 2020 to 5,452 in 2021 and further to 6,092 in 2022. The highest count was recorded in 2023 with 6,298 cases, before declining to 5,808 in 2024. Fatalities followed a similar upward trajectory, beginning with 728 deaths in 2020, increasing to 774 in 2021, 805 in 2022, and reaching 893 in 2023, before settling at 831 in 2024

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