Road safety annual report 2023
The Road Safety Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of road safety performance for the 43 countries participating in the International Transport Forum’s permanent working group on road safety, known
Traffic Accidents
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Pedestrians, two-wheeler riders most vulnerable on Gurgaon roads
As many as 1,403 people have lost their lives in over a thousand road accidents in Gurgaon over the past three years. They includes 552 pedestrians, 462 motorcyclists and 81 cyclists. An analysis of road
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Judgement of the Supreme Court of India regarding road accidents in India and means to prevent it, 22/04/2014
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of S.Rajaseekaran Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 22/04/2014 regarding road accidents in India. The petitioner has set out detailed statistics published
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Jumbo safety plan in bin
The Centre has turned down suggestions for planting chillies and tea crops around railway tracks to curb the mowing down of elephants by trains, saying it would hamper the migration of the animals in search
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Citizens push for better city
Road safety group does signal check Pune: The Save Pune Traffic Movement (SPTM), working towards sustainable transport and road safety, has helped fix eleven signals for pedestrians with the help of the Pune Municipal Corporation. The NGO will identify more such junctions where the signals are required or need repair.
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ई-रिक्शा ने बढ़ाया सिरदर्द
नियम तोड़ने पर IPC के तहत कार्रवाई मोटर वीइकल एक्ट के दायरे में ना आने और किसी ठोस पॉलिसी के अभाव में ट्रैफिक नियमों की धज्जियां उड़ा रहे ई-रिक्शों पर नकैल कसने का तरीका ट्रैफिक पुलिस ने ढूंढ निकाला है। ट्रैफिक पुलिस अब उन ई-रिक्शा चालकों के रिक्शे जब्त करके उनके खिलाफ आईपीसी के तहत केस रजिस्टर करवा रही है, जो ट्रैफिक के फ्लो की दिशा से उलटी दिशा में रिक्शे चलाते हैं। ट्रैफिक पुलिस ने साफ कर दिया है कि उनके पास कानून के तहत ई-रिक्शों के खिलाफ इस तरह का एक्शन लेने की पावर है। आने वाले दिनों में ट्रैफिक पुलिस और ज्यादा सख्ती से दिल्ली के उन सभी इलाकों में यह ड्राइव चलाएगी, जहां बड़ी तादाद में ई-रिक्शे चलते हैं।
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Transport for health: the global burden of disease from motorized road transport
This new World Bank report quantifies the health losses from road deaths and injuries worldwide, as part of the path-finding Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Combined with the deaths arising from vehicle pollution, the road transport death toll exceeds that of, for example, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or diabetes
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BEST driver runs over pedestrian in Goregaon
Mumbai:The city witnessed two accidents involving BEST buses on Tuesday. In Goregaon east, a 48-year-old man was run over by a bus driver; in Mankhurd three persons, including a woman bus commuter, were
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For the sake of roads well travelled
This month, a pedestrian activist in Bangalore lost her life in a road accident. But the fight goes on. Sunday Times profiles some custodians of the roads who are getting pedestrians off the back foot
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India’s foot soldiers
Courting better footpaths While walking to her workplace in Bangalore, Jenny Pinto encounters electrical transformers, uncovered manholes and displaced tiles. After years of trying to nudge people into action for walkers’ rights, Pinto has realized one thing. “That unless citizens take a legal route to make civic authorities understand the importance of walkability, safe roads have no chance,” she says. A designer and a resident of Indiranagar, 53-yearold Pinto did just that by filing a petition last April with the Karnataka high court seeking directions to the government to build better footpaths.
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Bringing equality to the streets
Two years back, Gita Vir, a civic activist, died when she was hit by a motorcycle while she was crossing a road. Vir, a founder member and trustee of the National Society for Clean Cities (NSCC), Pune,