Mumbai-Pune Expressway: 52% reduction in fatal accidents since 2016

PUNE The number of fatalities on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway has seen an overall reduction by 52% since 2016, when the ‘Zero-Fatality Corridor” project, a joint initiative of the MSRDC, Maharashtra Highway Police, Mahindra & Mahindra, and SaveLIFE Foundation was launched to reduce road fatalities.

The expressway had witnessed a 43% reduction in road- crash fatalities, from 151 fatalities in 2016 to 86 fatalities until December 31, 2019.

In 2020, the expressway reported 66 fatalities in 63 accidents, according to data collated by SaveLIFE Foundation.

Though the figure demonstrates a 56% reduction in fatalities from the baseline of 2016, the project has taken the Covid-19-related impact into account and has marked a 52% reduction instead,