Road Safety

 India will achieve 50% reduction in road fatalities by 2025 confidence on halving road accident deaths from about 1.5 lakh per annum by 2025 as against the global target of 2030, Union road transport minister, Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. Quoting data collected by the Transport Research Wing (TRW) of his ministry at a webinar organised by Road Safety Network, […]

You may think that the pandemic, lockdown and WFH routine has subsequently led to lesser vehicles on the roads and, in turn, fewer road rage cases and accidents. On the contrary, authorities say that the number has in fact gone up! In Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, this surge in road accidents has also led to citizens demanding […]

Broken roads with potholes in Phase-9 residential area have made commuting accident prone, especially for two-wheelers. Mohali civic body has not done repair work despite several complaints by residents. Source: Times of India

GURUGRAM: More than a week after issuing safety guidelines following the collapse of a 130-foot span of an under construction flyover on Sohna Road, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has come down heavily on the contractor for unsatisfactory implementation of its orders. Adopting a ‘zero-tolerance’ approach towards safety protocols for the construction work on the 21.66 km-long Sohna Elevated Road […]

PANAJI: Come September, officials from the transport department and traffic cell visit schools and colleges to spread awareness on road safety for the annual road safety. But this year, owing to the pandemic, as a result of which educational institutions have restricted themselves to online education, the awareness campaign has been suspended. “While we still propagate road safety, the awareness programmes […]

The city on the first lockdown-free Sunday, after several weeks, witnessed usual crowds at meat, fish and vegetable markets where maintaining physical distancing had been a task, even during the lockdown.The addition to the crowded areas seems to be the playgrounds. Visuals: Youngsters playing cricket at Somasundaram Ground, T Nagar after TN government relaxed Sunday lockdown… […]

Debut director Dr Maran’s Pachai Vilakku has been having a dream run at various film festivals during the lockdown. The film, which had its theatrical release in January, has been doing the rounds at various global film fests since March. Dr Maran says, “We applied for events like Druk International Film Festival (Paro, Bhutan), New York Movie Awards (USA), Aphrodite […]

venkatadri nagar under subhash nagar,jeedimetla roads are in very bad condition lot of accidents happening because of path holes and water logging. Request the concern authorities to immediately repair the roads Source: Times of India

PATNA: Altogether 7,205 people, including 1,181 women, were killed in road accidents across the state in 2019, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2019 released on August 31. During the same period (January-December) in 2018, the number of road fatalities was 6,729. The 2019 figure is a 7% rise over the previous year’s road deaths. The […]

The state government has urged the ministry of road transport and highways (MORTH) to launch Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD) in Odisha. The ministry had rolled out the IT-based solution in six states – Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh—in January this year on pilot basis to analyse the causes of road […]