<span style="color: #222222;">There has been 10 percent decrease in road accidents across the country. In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today, Road and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said, this was due to the amended Motor Vehicle Act.<br />''<br />''The Minister said, Tamil Nadu with 24 percent decrease topped in the reduction of road accidents in the country.<br />''<br />''Mr Gadkari informed that barring two states, rest all showed a considerable decline in the number of road accidents.<br />''<br />''He regretted that every year more than one lakh fifty thousand people die across the country in road accidents and that the government is committed to reducing the number of causalities.</span><br />