172 killed in 768 road accidents in Jammu city in 2025

Srinagar, Mar 6: As many as 172 people were killed and 356 others injured in 768 road accidents reported across Jammu city in 2025, official figures obtained through the Right to Information (RTI) Act have revealed.

The official figures have raised concerns about the traffic safety and enforcement in the Jammu city.

AS per the official figures provided by the Traffic City Jammu, over 170 lives have been lost.

The figures were obtained through RTI by M M Shuja.

In wake of the road accidents, the Traffic Police Jammu launched extensive drives during the year as part of its enforcement measures.

As per the figures as many as 6.24 lakh vehicles were challaned in 2025 and a revenue worth Rs 5.78 crore was collected by the traffic department in the year.

Traffic officials said the enforcement drives target the violations including over speeding, dangerous driving, riding without helmets, triple riding and any other acts which are in violation of the Motor Vehicles Act.

As per the official figure the number of traffic cops deployed in Jammu has decreased from 2020 to 2025.

The figures reveal that 324 traffic personnel remained deployed in Jammu during 2020 which however decreased to 293 in 2021 and was 296 in 2022.

The number of traffic cops deployed in Jammu city was 300 in 2023 which decreased to 299 in 2024 and 276 in 2025.

“As on date, 271 Police officers are available in this unit. However in connection with the Darbar move offices in Jammu and to manage traffic in Jammu city, 158 police officials from different units have been attached with the traffic Police Jammu,” the official document reads.

“Besides time to time requests have been made to the traffic police headquarters J&K to overcome the shortage,” it reads.

The department has said that road safety awareness drives were regularly organised at University, colleges and in schools besides public places to aware the students and general public regarding the road safety.

“Regular induction of high quality and high visibility plastic barricades are installed in Jammu city. Besides this, Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) has been installed in town Hall Jammu by Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and a team from traffic police Jammu has been deployed there for monitoring the same,” the document reads.