Ealth Road Danger Index · Pan-India Edition · MoRTH × SaveLIFE 2023-24

India loses 470+ people to its roads every day. Here is exactly where.

Government studies have named the corridors and black spots where India keeps dying: NH-44 in the north, NH-60 and NH-953 in the west, Coimbatore and Kurnool in the south, NH-16 down the east coast, and the fog-hit Yamuna Expressway. We pinned 26 of the worst on Google Maps, zone by zone.

1.72 lakh
people killed on Indian roads in 2023, roughly one every 3 minutes
89,085
deaths in just the 100 worst districts across 2023 and 2024
54%
of those deaths came from only 18 corridors now targeted by the Centre
26
government-identified hotspots pinned on the map below
Explore the danger mapWhy this matters in an emergency

26 black spots. 5 zones. One map.

Tap any spot to see the exact location on Google Maps, why it kills, and the numbers behind it. Pins mark police or NHAI identified black spots and the epicentres of the Centre's 18 target corridors.

Overview: 26 black spots across 5 zones. Tap any spot to zoom in.

Pan-India

India's danger map, zone by zone

Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra lose the most lives. Coimbatore is the single worst district. The NCR's NH-44 is the single worst stretch.

Select any hotspot from the list to see exactly where it is and why it keeps taking lives.
1.72 lakh road deaths in 2023 across India
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What actually kills on Indian highways

Straight from the national data and the police audits. It is rarely the road surface. It is what happens on it, across it, and inside the driver's head.

The 6 to 9 pm window

One in four deaths in the 100 worst districts happens in these three hours. Over half of all deaths fall between 3 pm and midnight, when light fades and fatigue peaks.

Sleep kills more than speed

On the Yamuna Expressway, drivers dozing off caused 44 percent of all crashes, nearly double the share of overspeeding. Long-haul fatigue is India's quietest killer.

People crossing on foot

Factory workers in Kundli, dhaba crowds in Murthal, morning walkers in Bhubaneswar. Pedestrians on highway stretches are the biggest single victim group.

Wrong side and illegal cuts

Police from Panipat to Karnal name unauthorised median cuts and wrong-side driving as their top killers. NHAI keeps sealing the cuts, locals keep reopening them.

The golden hour

You cannot control the highway. You can control what responders know.

On every one of these stretches, the difference between a statistic and a survivor is usually the first hour. The Ealth card is an NFC + QR PVC card that lives in your wallet. One tap or one scan shows your blood group, allergies, conditions and emergency contacts to whoever reaches you first. Key details are printed on the card itself, so it works even when your phone does not.

Kyunki emergency batake nahi aati. Ealth hai na.

Get the Ealth CardSee how it works

Details shown are illustrative. Your card carries your real emergency profile.

Sources and honesty notes

National figures and target corridors: MoRTH road accident data for 2023, and the SaveLIFE Foundation study for MoRTH covering the 100 worst districts of 2023-24 (89,085 deaths, 18 target corridors, NH-60 Dhule-Pune at 236 deaths, NH-953 at 208, NH-848 at 193, Malegaon PS and Kalyan-Badlapur-Vangani flagged), via The Tribune, January 2026. NCR corridor: SaveLIFE and MoRTH iRAD analysis via Times of India (June 2025); Panipat, Sonipat and Karnal traffic police and NHAI Gurugram audits via The Tribune (2022 to 2026). Yamuna Expressway: RTI data via Open Magazine and PTI (7,625 crashes, 1,320 deaths, 2012-23). South: NHAI Bengaluru black spot works via Oneindia (2026), Kurnool NH-44 reporting via The Federal (2025), MoRTH reply on NH-66 Kerala works via Onmanorama (2026). East: NHAI and Odisha Police black spot data via Ommcom News and OdishaBytes.

Pins mark the nearest named landmark of each identified stretch or corridor epicentre; official black spots cover roughly 500 metres around the pin, and corridor pins represent longer stretches. This page is for awareness, not navigation advice. Slow down after sunset, never drive drowsy, never drive against traffic, and use foot overbridges even when the grill is broken.