NEW DELHI: Road crashes at traffic junctions with blinker or flash lights are more fatal in comparison to similar incidences at other such intersections including ones with no traffic signals. According to the Road Accident report on 2014, at least three persons are killed in every 10 crashes at crossings with blinkers and the number of persons injured was higher than the total number of accidents.The latest road accident report shows that though the total share of crashes at ‘uncontrolled’ intersections is over 76%, the fatalities are less than 20%. Similarly at crossings having traffic light signals and are controlled by police, the rate of fatalities is around 20%.The trend was similar in 2013 when 4,740 persons died in 14,690 crashes at crossings with blinkers. These accidents had left 17,411 injured. According to Delhi traffic police officials, commuters hardly follow norms at crossings with blinkers, which are primarily meant for warning the drivers at a crossing, to slow down and move cautiously.The death of former rural development minister Gopinath Munde in a road crash at a crossing, which was on blinker mode, had prompted the Delhi traffic police to turn some of the major signals around Lutyens’ Delhi into the signal mode past mid night. Since May this year, they have also deployed over 50 traffic policemen from 9 pm to 6 am at these crossings.Traffic safety experts said that unfortunately even road-owning agencies don’t follow norms while installing blinkers at crossings or merging points. In most cases, the traffic lights are even found to be non-functional. “There is no specific data of how many permanent traffic lights are put on blinker mode in cities and towns during the day. We have yet to go a long way to get adequate data to find out the exact reasons behind crashes and fatalities,” said one of them.The report also flags the point that traffic junctions are the most accident prone areas as about 57% of total accidents took place at junctions in 2014, though it’s marginally less than 2013.