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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Killing shortcuts
Car navigation systems can be dangerous for pedestrians in residential areas
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Bike safety
Bikes are going to be safer. John Shortfall of Dublin, Ireland, has taken the airbag technology out of the car and put it in your average, everyday bike helmets. His new crash helmet contains a
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INDIA
• The Punjab government has decided to introduce the study of environment, with major stress on bird and wildlife, as a course in the state universities. Informed official sources recently
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SANE RULING
The Supreme Court has ordered the removal of "all hoarding by roadsides' in the capital which it said were hazardous and a disturbance to traffic. In its earlier court order, the court had directed
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Artificial eyes
A camera primarily built to assist golfers study their swing, is helping traffic police cut the number of accidents in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Electric in Japan has developed the camera. The microphone of
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Traffic and transportation policies and strategies in urban areas in India: final report
The transportation modes in Indian cities are multifarious with varying capacity and widely varying sizes and speeds.
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Empathy first
Life ad death for the ordiary Indian citizen have become mere statistics
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Head in the air
A helmet containing an airbag that inflates to cover a motorcyclist's neck and shoulders has been invented by the Ireland-based Airbag Technology Inc. The inside of the helmet has a
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Cellular threat
Researchers D A Redelmeier and R J Tibshirani of the University of Toronto, US, say that driving while talking on cellular phones is as dangerous as driving while slightly drunk. A perusal of the
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Fatal leak
In a grim reminder of the Bhopal gas tragedy of India