MoRTH Data · 2024
Road Accidents in Uttar Pradesh
In 2024, Uttar Pradesh recorded 46,052 road accidents in which 24,118 people were killed — 13.6% 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.
24,118
Deaths in 2024
Rank 1 of 36
46,052
Accidents in 2024
Rank 4 of 36
52.4
Deaths per 100 crashes
India: 36.3
+1.97%
Change in deaths
2024 vs 2023
What the numbers say about Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh recorded 52.4 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 rose 1.97% between 2023 and 2024, so the trend is moving the wrong way.
Five-year trend
Accidents and deaths in Uttar Pradesh, 2020 to 2024, as published by MoRTH.
| Year | Accidents | Deaths | Deaths per 100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020COVID | 34,243 | 19,149 | 55.9 |
| 2021 | 37,729 | 21,227 | 56.3 |
| 2022 | 41,746 | 22,595 | 54.1 |
| 2023 | 44,534 | 23,652 | 53.1 |
| 2024 | 46,052 | 24,118 | 52.4 |
Across the full period, accidents in Uttar Pradesh rose 34.5% and deaths rose 25.9%. Note that 2020 was suppressed by COVID-19 lockdowns across India, so a rise measured from 2020 overstates the underlying trend.
Uttar Pradesh in the national picture
Share of India's road deaths
13.6%
of 1,77,175 deaths nationally
Share of India's accidents
9.4%
of 4,87,707 accidents nationally
National rank by deaths
1
of 36 states & UTs
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Frequently Asked Questions
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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.