Nearly 95,722 people have died in road accidents across Maharashtra between January 2019 to September 2025. This highlights a major problem that still hasn’t improved.
Maharashtra ranked third with 15,366 deaths that year, behind Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, according to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
According to statistics from the Maharashtra transport department, the state had 26,922 road accidents and 11,532 deaths in the first nine months of this year, compared to 26,719 accidents and 11,573 deaths in the same period last year.
Among districts and major cities, Mumbai had the highest number of accidents with 1,878 between January and September this year. Meanwhile, Nashik Rural had the most deaths with 656 road fatalities.
In the latest major accident, eight people died and 14 were injured when a car was crushed between two large container trucks, causing a huge fire that engulfed all three vehicles on the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway in Pune on Thursday evening, November 13.
In the six years up to September 30 this year, Maharashtra recorded 219,039 road accidents, resulting in 95,722 deaths, 129,670 serious injuries, and 53,036 minor injuries.
Road deaths rose by 59 percent in Buldhana district in the first nine months of this year, followed by Sangli (54 percent), Solapur city (50 percent), Latur (33 percent), Bhandara (33 percent), Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar rural (29 percent), and Amravati (25 percent).
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