Parliament Watch
A Crashfree India public database

Every road-safety question in Parliament since 2014.
And the MPs who never asked one.

All 1,473 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha questions on road safety — put to the four ministries that own it: Road Transport & Highways, Health (trauma care), Heavy Industries (vehicle standards), and Housing & Urban Affairs (pedestrian safety). Reconciled against Parliament's own records so nothing is missed. Search who asks, who doesn't, and what the Government answered.

Find your state & MP Explore all 1,473 questions
1,473questions across 4 ministries, Jul 2014 – Aug 2026
270of 540 sitting Lok Sabha MPs have never asked one — in any term
4named hit-and-run — which kills 1 in 6 on the road
92%answered only in writing, never debated on the floor
The trend

Scrutiny is rising.
2025 set the record.

Parliamentary attention to road safety reached 159 questions in 2025 — a record — and 2026 has already logged 158 (through August). The pressure is real. The question is where it points.

Questions per year, by House

Select a year to see its questions in the database. 2026 covers sessions up to August.

Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha
The attention gap

What kills the most
is asked about the least.

Even across four ministries, the questions cluster on aggregate accident data — the specific, fixable causes barely register. Set each cause's share of Parliament's questions against its share of deaths on the road, and the gap is stark. Select a row to read the actual questions.

Fatality shares: MoRTH, Road Accidents in India 2023 — hit-and-run 31,209 deaths (18%); pedestrians 35,221 (20.4%); two-wheeler riders 77,539 (44.8%) of 1,72,890 total. Drunk driving is shown by question count only — police-reported fatality shares for it are widely considered undercounts. Question shares computed from this database of 1,473.

Work in an MP's office? We will help draft a ready-to-table question on any of these gaps — model questions in notice format, with the supporting data. Reach us via crashfreeindia.org.
What happens to the questions

92% are never debated
on the floor of the House.

A starred question is answered orally on the floor, with follow-up questions the minister must face. An unstarred question gets a written reply and no debate. Since July 2014, road safety has been starred just 120 times.

Unstarred — written reply, no debate Starred — answered orally, minister faces supplementaries
Road safety in your state

Who speaks for road safety
where you live?

Pick your state, then your constituency — and see your own MP's road-safety record as a shareable card. Then do the one thing that changes it: write to them. Every card carries the MP's official parliamentary email with a ready draft — thanks if they've raised road safety, an invitation to start if they haven't. Your part didn't end at the ballot box.

sitting MPs have never asked have asked at least once

The 18th Lok Sabha, seat by seat — every dot is a sitting MP. Select a dot for that MP's record. Three of the 543 seats are currently vacant. Counts cover every term each MP has served.

Who asks

862 MPs have asked at least once.
A handful keep asking.

Sustained questioning is how an issue stays on a ministry's desk. These members returned to road safety again and again — select a name to see their record.

Lok Sabha

813 questions

Rajya Sabha

660 questions
The database

Every question, every answer.
Searchable, linkable, citable.

Search by subject, MP, highway or scheme. Results link to the official answer PDF on sansad.in wherever one is available — 38 pre-2019 records survive only in legacy formats — and every filtered view has its own shareable link.

Ministry
House
Type

    Methodology & data

    Open data.
    Take it, use it, cite it.

    How this was built — and checked

    Road safety is answered by more than one ministry, so we enumerated every question — directly from Parliament's own question APIs — put to the four that own it: Road Transport & Highways (roads, vehicles, enforcement), Health & Family Welfare (trauma centres, ambulances, accident-victim care), Heavy Industries (vehicle crash standards), and Housing & Urban Affairs (pedestrian and footpath safety in cities). From those, the audited baseline kept the 1,415 whose titles concern road safety across the 16th–18th Lok Sabhas and Rajya Sabha sessions 232–270 (July 2014 – April 2026); the tracker now adds each session's questions daily, bringing the set to 1,473 through August 2026.

    Every record was cross-checked question-by-question against Parliament's own question APIs — the audit found zero spurious records. Each carries its answering ministry, is tagged by topic, matched to the asking MP's official profile (party, state, constituency), and linked to the Government's answer PDF. Refreshed daily during sessions.

    Caveats

    • Selection is title-based: a question that raises road safety under an unrelated title isn't counted. Still treat totals as a near-complete floor, not an absolute ceiling.
    • 1,435 of 1,473 records link to an answer PDF; a few older answers survive only in legacy formats.
    • Questions asked jointly are credited to every co-asking MP. MP names are matched to the official roster; a handful of low-confidence matches are flagged in the dataset.
    • Accuracy. Everything here is compiled by automated pipelines from the official records of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha published on sansad.in, and checked continuously — but discrepancies, in the source records or in our matching, are possible. We present a good-faith reflection of the official record, not a claim of perfection, and no count here should by itself be read as a judgment of any MP. Spotted an error? Write to info@crashfreeindia.org (or report it on GitHub) — verified corrections ship in the next daily refresh.

    Use the data

    Version 3.2 · complete set across four ministries, data through August 2026 · CC BY 4.0.
    Cite as: Crashfree India, Road Safety in Parliament (2026).