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The decision of the court to award the accused bail, with its order to write a 300-word essay, sparked nation-wide outrage and debate over road safety. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis issued statements of condemnation expressing shock and surprise over the leniency of the Juvenile Justice Board in an incident which took two lives. [36]
Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures, such as traffic calming, to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians , cyclists , motorists , passengers of vehicles, and passengers of on-road public transport , mainly buses and trams .
Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [3] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
Accident triangles have been proposed to model the number of minor problems vs. the number of serious incidents. These include Heinrich's triangle [9] and Frank E. Bird's accident ratio triangle (proposed in 1966 and shown above). Many models to characterize and analyze accidents have been proposed, [10] which can be
March 11 – Tanzania – Tanzania road accident. A bus and two trucks collided, killing 41 and injuring 25. [217] March 14 – Brazil – Brazil bus accident. A tourist bus veered off a road and plunged 100 m (330 ft) into a ravine in Santa Catarina, killing 54 and injuring 10. [218] March 21 – Egypt – Egypt bus accident. A bus fell off a ...
The NCRB data for 2021 shows 17,993 accidents in Indian Railways, a rise in 38% compared to the year 2020, with most accidents in Maharashtra. [4] According to the 2013 global survey of traffic collisions by the UN World Health Organization, India suffered a road fatality rate of 16.6 per 100,000 people in 2013. [5]
From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6]
In Road Accidents: prevent or punish? Leeming set out his ideas and views of the causes of road traffic casualties (RTCs), and of how best they can be tackled. The book is described as attacking the beginnings of the blame culture, with Leeming convinced that RTCs could be reduced by using road engineering methods based on evidence derived from the scientific analysis of the causes of RTAs ...