According to a media report, 11,090 lives were lost in fog-related road accidents in 2017, which amounts to 16% of the total road crashes in the same year. This figure has risen by almost 100% from 5,886 deaths in 2014.
In 2015, 7,665 people were killed in fog-related road accidents. In 2016, this number rose to 9,317 deaths. In the next one year, the number of fatalities went up by 20%.
According to 2017 figures provided by the Ministry Road Transport and Highways, Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of fog-related road fatalities (3,374 deaths), followed by Bihar (1,432), Haryana (900), Punjab (866) and Orissa (516).
North India sees the highest number of fog-related accidents during the months of December and January. In December 2018, fifteen people lost their lives due to heavy fog in separate incidents in Jhajjar, Haryana and on the Ambala-Chandigarh highway. On January 7, 2018, powerlifting world champion Saksham Yadav was killed in a road accident on the Delhi-Panipat highway.
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