The lockdown may have cleared the traffic from India's roads, but not road accidents.
A survey conducted by SaveLIFE Foundation, an NGO that works on road safety, found out that in the first five weeks of the lockdown, between 24 March to 4 May, around 140 lives were lost due to road crashes across the country.
A 100 of these deaths were recorded in nine states alone – Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Assam, Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. Punjab topped the chart with the highest number of death, 42 to be specific, followed by Kerala and Delhi.