
World's Deadliest Roads: India - Tracks of Doom
North India's highways run from Himalayan mountain passes down to the traffic of New Delhi, carrying more than 100 million people a day on roads built without asphalt or guardrails. The film follows truckers, bus drivers, and farmers who share these routes with buffalo carts, motorcycles, and horses, and lingers on the physics of what goes wrong: overtaking on blind curves, driving against oncoming traffic, and fog around the capital that swallows headlights whole. In the mountains, a single wrong turn sends trucks off cliffs more than 300 meters deep, and the footage shows the wreckage and the rescue crews who go down after them. Interviews with drivers explain why they take the risks anyway, whether it's a delivery deadline or simply the only road available. With India accounting for a striking share of the world's road deaths, the film treats the chaos not as spectacle alone but as a system: too many vehicles, too few rules enforced, and terrain that punishes the smallest mistake.