CHENNAI: Every three minutes, a life is lost on Indian roads, according to a new time-based data visualisation that reframes the country's road safety crisis as a race against time.

India's 'Road Crash Fatalities Clock (2023)', developed by architect and urban planner Karthikeyan Baskar, translates the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' Road Accidents in India 2023 report into a real-time visualisation that captures the human cost behind the numbers.

According to the data, a road crash claims a life every three minutes, while a pedestrian is killed every 15 minutes. The visualisation breaks down fatalities by road user category, underscoring the uneven risk borne by vulnerable users.

Every 115 minutes, a two-wheeler rider dies; every 83 minutes, a car, taxi or van occupant loses

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