Road Safety

Back in 2007, it was a tough call for Navdeep Asija to quit his job at an MNC in Delhi and return to his hometown Fazilka in Punjab to set up an NGO, the Graduate Welfare Association Fazilka (GWAF). The aim was to make the roads in his town safer. Back in 2007, it was […]

Jawahar Shetkari Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Hupari, in association with Hupari Police Station, conducted a campaign to raise awareness on road safety. The awareness programme focused on the increasing accidents between tractors transporting sugarcane and trolley drivers. On this occasion, reflector banners were distributed to 300 vehicles transporting sugarcane. It also highlighted the importance of using […]

29-yr-old UX designer pastes reflective stickers on dividers, making them safe for motorists at night. Just when you thought Bengaluru’s streets could do with some decluttering, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike decided to install tall, ugly concrete medians on the roads. With no warning signs that they exist, these concrete dividers soon became traffic hazards. […]

While the Indian two-wheeler industry is currently going through a prolonged phase of slowdown, one of the allied industries — the helmet market remains unaffected and continues to flourish with an annual growth rate of 20%. With over 21 million two-wheeler sales recorded in the last fiscal (FY’19), the domestic two-wheeler market has grown rapidly […]

It will not be wrong to say that India has the most killer roads in the world. That’s because even with less than 2% of the total number of motor vehicles globally, India accounts for over 10% of the world’s road accident deaths. Last year, close to 1.5 lakh people lost their lives on Indian […]

NEW DELHI: In 2017, nearly 600 people died daily due to road traffic injuries in India, a study published in The Lancet Public Heath journal has estimated based on several “verbal autopsy reports”. The estimated loss of nearly 2.19 lakh lives in 2017 was about 71,000 more than what the road transport ministry collated from […]

The new Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 has made it compulsory for children riding pillion to wear helmets but this is rarely enforced by traffic police. Every two minutes a child or teenager dies in a road accident in some part of the world, while another 38 children are injured. In Tamil Nadu, in 2018 […]

Hyderabad: Council for Transforming India (CTI) in association with GITAM University Hyderabad Campus organised a Road Safety Awareness Session at Kinnera Hall on Monday. Around 500 undergraduate students participated in this awareness campaign. The main objective behind the session was to develop the traffic sense among youth and to create a positive attitude towards following […]

Pune: Concerned about the dilution of helmet law by states, Road Safety Network, a national coalition of road safety NGOs across the country, has written to the ministry of road transport and highways to notify Section 129 of the amended Motor Vehicles Act. The letter urges the ministry to immediately bring into force the amended […]

Tirupati: Chittoor district police have started a special drive aimed at ensuring road safety for students travelling in private transport. Based on the advice of Chittoor SP S Senthil Kumar, various police sub-divisions have taken up the special drive to sensitise school managements, private transport operators and students to strictly adhere to guidelines laid out […]