Road Safety

Whenever I open a newspaper in India, I come across stories of lives needlessly lost in road crashes. Children riding their bicycles to after-school classes mowed down by speeding vehicles, young fathers on two-wheelers cut down by reckless drivers, cars crashing on badly-lit roads or into wrongly-placed dividers, each heartrending incident leaving a family grieving […]

Visakhapatnam: Road Safety Week celebrations began in the Port City. “The staff and workers who are engaged in the underground electricity supply network cabling took part in the road safety awareness campaign at at Akkayyapalem, ” said the project manager PVV Pradeep. Four Town police station house officer Srinivasa Rao flagged off the awareness campaign. […]

At the time when district administration and police officials were attending an event organised to observe Road Safety Week at the auditorium of Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital here on Wednesday, a large number of students, doctors and faculty members were making efforts to remove their vehicles that were stuck in the slush […]

Centre has asked the State Governments to prepare a roadmap to develop and reorient road infrastructure within their administrative limits so that fatalities and accidents on road can be curtailed. Peeved by the number of road accidents across the country, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has called upon Transport Ministers from all States to prepare […]

With a view to averting the deadly accidents reported almost every day on the city roads due to rash and negligent driving, several road safety programmes were observed to mark the 31st National Road Safety Week. The Social Welfare and Health Care Society in collaboration with Amritsar Traffic Police and BBKDAV College held an awareness […]

The campaign is aimed at creating a positive change in the society and inspiring people to adhere to traffic rules for their own safety and that of others on the road Hyundai Motor India Ltd., the smart mobility solutions provider, started its nationwide initiative to spread road safety awareness during the Road Safety Week from […]

Road accidents, that cost India about 3-5% of gross domestic product every year, are avoidable if the country could improve its roads and city planning, train its drivers better, and enforce traffic laws properly, according to IndiaSpends.com. Currently, as per the latest World Health Organisation reports, India accounts for over 11% of total global road […]

Ludhiana: A traffic awareness programme has been started by the Ludhiana Police under the 31st Road Safety Week. Traffic Police announced that no challans would be issued in this week of the road safety drive, and only awareness would be raised at various areas in the city. The drive was inaugurated by police commissioner Rakesh […]

NASHIK: Around 200 people, including police personnel and volunteers from Mahindra Logistics , traversed across the city on their two-wheelers while driving home the message of traffic safety, especially the importance of wearing the helmet, on Saturday. The bike rally, which was organised by the traffic branch of the city police in association with Mahindra […]

PATNA: State transport minister Sanjay Kumar Nirala on Saturday said the provisions of Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 will be enforced more strictly in the rural areas to bring down number of accidents. Speaking at the launch of National Road Safety Week here, Nirala said there has been a 40-50% rise in two-wheeler riders wearing […]