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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Unreal licence test: 235 pedestrian deaths recorded in Hyderabad
RTA’s driving licence test checks only 3 of 24 parameters listed in MV Act. Hyderabad: Hyderabad has recorded 235 pedestrian deaths up to July 2016, compared to 455 in all of 2015 and 420 in 2014.
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World Bank funding for road safety in Telangana
The Hyderabad- Bijapur road safety project is expected to finish by June next year. Hyderabad: The World Bank has in principle agreed to fund up to Rs.1300 crore for major road safety measures along
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Pedestrian safety score may be must for new car models
The government will ask auto companies to equip all their future car models with frontal protection system to reduce the number of road fatalities in the event of a front-end collision with a pedestrian.
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State mulls deploying traffic wardens for better management
Nashik: Taking cognizance of the lack of manpower with the police in managing traffic, the state government has come up with a novel plan of deploying 'traffic wardens', who would assist the department
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PIL seeks to end overloading of heavy vehicles
Ahmedabad: Gujarat high court on Wednesday sought reply from the state government in response to a PIL that demanded curb on overloading of heavy vehicles - trucks and buses on state roads for the purpose
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WHO's health report card confirms India's massive non communicable disease burden
Diseases of the heart and of the lung remain the bane of India's disease burden, being the top two causes of the deaths, respectively as shown by the recently released WHO World Health Statistics Report,
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1.46 lakh lives lost on Indian roads last year
Majority of victims in the 15-34 age group An official report, released by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday, said 1.46 lakh people were killed in road accidents in
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PMC must concentrate on road safety measures on Pune Nagar road BRTS corridor, says NGO
Pune: While a number of accidents took place on the Nagar road BRTS corridor last month, the Pune Municipal Corporation has planned to build 5 foot over bridges to prevent accidents. However, NGO Nagrik
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IRF urges India to sign Vienna convention on road safety
Global road safety body IRF has urged India to become a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968) and be on par with international standards in this area. In a letter to Road Transport
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Gujarat road safety policy to target fatal accidents
AHMEDABAD: Every hour, at least one person is killed in road mishaps in the state. In response, the Gujarat government is trying to cut the fatality by half through a new road safety policy that focuses