India, Feb. 18 -- Speeding, rash driving and dangerous overtaking remain among the top violations behind road crash fatalities, with the district's road safety committee identifying 23 accident-prone spots that saw 53 deaths in 49 fatal crashes over the past two years, according to its annual "zero fatalities" action plan.

The plan recorded 636 traffic-related fatalities between 2023 and 2024. Of these, 88 were linked to speeding, 32 to rash driving, 19 to dangerous overtaking, 13 to zig-zag driving, six to wrong-way driving and five each to drunken driving and wrongfully parked vehicles. As many as 407 fatalities did not correlate with specific driving offences, while 55 cases had no data.

Of the 49 fatal crashes at the 23 identified s...