Explained: How do the poor cope, struggle with road crashes in India?

More than 75% of poor households that were affected by a road traffic crash reported a decline in their income due to the incident

Raghuveer Thakur was 27 when he died in a road crash on the Mumbai-Nashik highway. A car rear-ended the two-wheeler on which he was riding pillion and he succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. His family was not only emotionally devastated but also pushed into economic distress. They had to wait for over five years before they received any compensation.

Such harrowing stories of poor families struggling financially after losing an earning member to a road crash are much too common. In the absence of timely legal compensation and high medical expenses, families spend years in a vicious cycle