Bhubaneswar, March 9: In the past decade (2016-25), as many as 53,451 people have been killed in road crashes.

In a written reply, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday informed the Odisha Assembly that as many as 55,783 people have received grievous injuries while 45,146 people have sustained minor injuries during this period.

As per the statistics, a total of 1,13,325 accident cases have been registered in the past one decade.

As many 4,463 persons have been killed in the road mishaps in 2016 while 5,709 people sustained grievous injury and 5,603 people suffered minor injury in 2016.

In 2017, at least 4,790 persons have been killed while toll rose to 5,315 in 2018 and 5,333 in 2019. However, the fatalities came down to 4,738 in 2020. However, the year 2021 witnessed a rise in fatalities of 5,081 persons followed by 5,467 in 2022 and 5,739 in 2023 and 6,142 in 2024.

Highest fatalities of 6,483 persons have been reported in 2025.

The data further shows that highest 12,782 accident cases were registered in 2025 while the year 2020 witnessed registration of 9,817 such cases, lowest in the past decade.

It further reveals that as many as 12,375 road accidents cases were registered in 2024 followed by 11,992 in 2023; 11,663 in 2022; 10,983 in 2021; 11,064 in 2019, 11,262 in 2018; 10,855 in 2017 and 10,532 in 2016.