Road Safety

GANDHINAGAR: Within eight days of the road safety authority notifying road safety rules for Gujarat Vijay Rupani had announced that wearing helmets was voluntary within urban limits – municipal corporation and municipalities – while compulsory in rural areas. Source: Times Of India

Road safety has long been a pressing concern in the country and rightly so! After all, our history in this context hasn’t been great. This discussion, unfortunately, revolved primarily on bad driving habits and our shameless disregard for traffic laws in India. On the other hand, road users in India, put the blame squarely at […]

Citizens on Sunday participated in a walk organised by the Consumers’ Legal Protection Forum, Assam, with support from Consumer VOICE, Delhi, to mark the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. This year’s slogan was Life is not a Car Part. It aimed to draw everyone’s attention to lack of road safety in India. […]

With changing seasons, road safety has become a necessity. Foggy roads during winter make it difficult to drive. Here are some tips for safe driving in winters. In the recent past, there has been a rise in the number of motorcycle and driving enthusiasts, willing to take on-road trips so that they can enjoy the […]

Accident rate may go up if the execution of road safety initiatives in the city continues to be tardy Tears rolled down their cheeks when those two road crash victims were described as examples of ‘living death’. Stung by the unkind introduction, both of them broke down in the middle of their talk at a […]

Gurugram Police is now all geared up for road safety and patrolling with Suzuki Gixxer SF 250! Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt. Ltd. (SMIPL) a subsidiary of one of the two-wheeler manufacturer, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan handed over 10 Suzuki Gixxer SF 250 to the Gurugram Police as part of their road safety Corporate Social Responsibility […]

Saseendran shares with motorists govt. plans for safety Motorists at Mundikkalthazham Junction in Kozhikode city were in for a surprise interruption on Monday morning. Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran and District Police Chief (Kozhikode City) A.V. George waved some of them down and greeted them with a smile. Then the duo went on to educate them […]

Asks them to spread awareness about it Students and alumni of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi have written a letter to all Lok Sabha MPs urging them to make road safety a “national priority and spread awareness about it in their respective constituencies. ‘Pass Bill in both Houses’ The campaign was started by Solve, a […]

They should bring about a permanent change in mindset of people, says RTO Initiatives taken during Road Safety Week were relevant throughout the year and a change in mindset of people was needed in this direction, said P. Suresh, Regional Transport Officer, Madurai South. Addressing students of K.L.N. Memorial Polytechnic College in Viraganoor here on […]

NEW DELHI: Every four minutes a life is lost due to road accidents in India. In 2015, more than 1.5 lakh people lost their lives due to road accidents in India. According to any road safety experts, the single most important contributor to road fatalities around the world is poor speed selection, commonly interpreted as […]