Srinagar, March 20 -- In response to a query about bus accidents raised by MP Krishna Prasad Tenneti in Lok Sabha, the Union Ministry of Road and Transport stated that hundreds of bus accidents continue to be reported annually across the country.

The data shared by the union ministry revealed that J&K recorded 1,494 bus accidents in 2004, the number dropped to 612 in 2008. However, the trend did not remain consistent, with accidents rising again to 1590 in 2014 and 1,583 in 2015.

A decline was observed in 2017, with just 399 cases, but the numbers fluctuated again in subsequent years-425 in 2018, 344 in 2019, 348 in 2020, 412 in 2021, and 357 in 2022.

In Ladakh, separate accident data was not recorded until 2021, when no bus accidents ...