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Motorcycles kill more than BMTC buses?
Written By silkboard - 19 September, 2010
Traffic Bangalore BMTC Citizen Reports BTP Accident Enforcement
An interesting stat in the data sets from Traffic police - despite all the negative talk about BMTC drivers (tabloids love it), motor cycles accidents result in more deaths on city roads than BMTC buses. Further, tractors cause more deaths on city roads than taxis and maxi cabs combined. So much for the yellow plate trash talk :)
Accident cases reported, till July in 2010:
Sl. No.
Type of Vehicle
Fatal Cases
Non-Fatal
Damage
Total Cases
Cases
Killed
Cases
Injured
1
BMTC Bus
57
57
COMMENTS
2010 total cases - Infographic
idontspam - 20 September, 2010 - 08:58
idontspam - 20 September, 2010 - 09:03
Where do I post more data that I have? May be make a book with all traffic stats, and club such posts there.
Post your dataset on IBM many eyes, people can make their own visualizations and post it back here like I have done above
rs - 19 September, 2010 - 19:31
Not that I want to defend motor cyclists - but is this `causes' or `involvement'. Clearly an accident involving a motorcycle is going to result in a higher likelyhood of fatality than one involving a car or bus....
Ramesh
kbsyed61 - 20 September, 2010 - 01:47
SB,
Topping the list is 'CAR'.
Sl. No.
Type of Vehicle
Fatal Cases
Non-Fatal
Damage
Total Cases
Cases
Killed
Cases
Injured
Car
71
76
752
932
251
1074
Sl. No.
Type of Vehicle
Fatal Cases
Non-Fatal
Damage
Total Cases
Car
112
116
1330
1619
483
1925
abidpqa - 28 September, 2010 - 18:10
If the motorcycles hits a bigger vehicle, the motorcycle rider is more likely to get injured. If motorcycle hits a pedestrian, pedestrian is likely to get injured. As the data only says fatalities, it could be either the motorcyclist or pedestrian or even people in bigger vehicle. So the data is confusing??.
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