<h1>Seat belt non-usage drives significant road fatalities; report links helmet non-use and overspeeding as key risk factors.</h1> A Ministry of Road Transport and Highways report attributes 16,025 fatalities in 2023 to seat belt non usage and 54,568 deaths to helmet non usage, stresses that helmets are mandatory for two wheeler motorists, and identifies overspeeding as the primary contributory factor across accidents, deaths and injuries, while also highlighting collision types and licence related non compliance as material factors.