MoRTH Data · 2024
Road Accidents in Punjab
In 2024, Punjab recorded 6,063 road accidents in which 4,759 people were killed — 2.7% of all road deaths in India. This page sets out the five-year trend, how lethal those crashes were compared with the national average, and where the state ranks.
4,759
Deaths in 2024
Rank 14 of 36
6,063
Accidents in 2024
Rank 17 of 36
78.5
Deaths per 100 crashes
India: 36.3
-1.45%
Change in deaths
2024 vs 2023
What the numbers say about Punjab
Punjab recorded 78.5 deaths for every 100 road accidents in 2024, against the national figure of 36.3. Crashes here are more often fatal than the Indian average. Severity of this kind tends to reflect the speed at which crashes happen and how long it takes an injured person to reach hospital, more than the raw number of collisions. Deaths fell 1.45% between 2023 and 2024 — one of the harder outcomes to achieve, since the national total rose 2.5% in the same year.
Five-year trend
Accidents and deaths in Punjab, 2020 to 2024, as published by MoRTH.
| Year | Accidents | Deaths | Deaths per 100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020COVID | 5,203 | 3,898 | 74.9 |
| 2021 | 5,871 | 4,589 | 78.2 |
| 2022 | 6,138 | 4,756 | 77.5 |
| 2023 | 6,269 | 4,829 | 77 |
| 2024 | 6,063 | 4,759 | 78.5 |
Across the full period, accidents in Punjab rose 16.5% and deaths rose 22.1%. Note that 2020 was suppressed by COVID-19 lockdowns across India, so a rise measured from 2020 overstates the underlying trend.
Punjab in the national picture
Share of India's road deaths
2.7%
of 1,77,175 deaths nationally
Share of India's accidents
1.2%
of 4,87,707 accidents nationally
National rank by deaths
14
of 36 states & UTs
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Source & method
Accident and fatality counts are from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (Transport Research Wing), Road Accidents in India 2024 — Table 5.1 (accidents) and Table 5.6 (persons killed), both State/UT-wise for 2020-2024. Ranks and year-on-year percentage changes are as published in those tables.
“Deaths per 100 crashes” is accident severity, calculated here as deaths divided by accidents for the same year. It is the standard measure MoRTH uses to describe how lethal crashes are, as distinct from how many there are.
Figures are those reported to MoRTH by state police departments. MoRTH restates earlier years in each edition, so these may differ slightly from figures published in previous years' reports.