As per data released by the Old Mumbai-Pune Highway Vision Zero project, the number of fatalities on highways has seen an overall reduction of 54 per cent since 2018. The project is a joint initiative of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), Maharashtra Highway Police, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India and SaveLIFE Foundation.
In 2018, when the project was initiated, the Mumbai-Pune section of NH-48 recorded 268 fatalities. “As a result of interventions carried out under this project, the number of fatalities reduced to 206 in 2019. Though in 2020, the actual number of fatalities stand at 79 as per police records, in order to report the impact of the project, a conservative figure of 123 has been considered on the basis of fatalities in Q1 and Q4 of the year,
