30% of Delhi-Mumbai highway unsafe: Study
NEW DELHI:Nearly 30% of the Delhi-Mumbai and almost half of the Mumbai-Chennai stretches of the Golden Quadrilateral are unsafe for car, bus and truck occupants, says a first-ofits-kind safety study on
Vehicular Safety
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Brand new Nano catches fire on NH 8
Vadodara/Anand: A brand new Nano car, which was on its way to Vadodara from Ahmedabad, caught fire on national highway (NH) 8 in Anand district on Wednesday noon. The incident took place at a spot near Boriyavi village on the national highway around 3 pm.
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A thorough check-up for low-floor buses
Sandeep Joshi NEW DELHI: Tata Motors has undertaken an exhaustive check-up of all its low-floor high-capacity CNG buses supplied to Delhi Transport Corporation so far. The process will be completed by this month-end . The move comes in the wake of a series of fire accidents in these new buses raising passenger safety concerns.
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Special drive against commercial vehicles
Special enforcement drive would be started against all commercial vehicles for checking documents related to CNG, registration certificates, pollution among others Delhi transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely on Monday stated that special enforcement drive would be started against all commercial vehicles for checking documents related to CNG, registration certificates, pollution among others.
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Another low-floor CNG bus catches fire in city
This is the third such incident of a CNG-run bus catching fire in the capital in the past one week Yet another lowfloor DTC CNG bus caught fire near Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Monday morning. The DTC has taken a serious view of the accident and has asked the private manufacturers to do the needful.
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Study says small-car buyers sacrifice safety
By Matthew L Wald, The New York Times The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that crash dummies in all three models tested the Honda Fit, the Toyota Yaris and the Smart Fortwo fared poorly in the collisions.
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Policy paper for pedestrian movement in the Bangalore metropolitan region
This policy paper is devised with intent of creating a framework for regulating and co-coordinating programs as well as actions by various stakeholders such that there is increased comfort, convenience and safety to the pedestrians and their movement.
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US shift to smaller cars raises concern
BY JOHN CRAWLEY WASHINGTON An accelerating US consumer shift from sport utility vehicles and pickups to more fuel-efficient cars should reduce rollover, but safety experts worry a lighter fleet poses serious risks despite air bags, anticollision systems and other advances.
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Under fire, school cabs rush for commercial tag
Following Government Threat That Violators Will Face Action, 5600 Owners Have Applied For Conversion Of Permits After endless extensions, the transport department's scheme for re-registration of school cabs as commercial vehicles finally seems to have found some takers. With the state government coming down heavily on van owners and announcing that stern action will be taken against all violators, the department has been flooded with requests for conversion of permits.