Dehradun, Jan. 19 -- As the Covid-19 fatalities go down in India (hopefully permanently), those on the roads are climbing up after a lull following the lockdowns. And these are by no means insubstantial - they rival the Covid numbers. While people plunge off the roads in the hills, speeding takes a heavy toll in the plains. The deaths keep on rising every year and the new sites of the accidents are increasingly the new expressways, where the high speeds do not allow for any margin of error. As the car and two-wheeler ownership goes up in India, the situation only promises to get worse.
Making things even worse is the fact that, while enforcement of anti-pandemic rules has been strict, such as on wearing masks, police have almost entirely s...