Road Safety - Inputs on Root Causes

Dear Friends,

Thanks for the overwhelming response on the subject of Road Safety.

Listed below are the key issues highlighted by you. Kindly review them and identify Root Causes for these issues. Once that is done, we will start a separate post on Solutions to be submitted to the Ministry of Transport for actions.

I look forward to your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta

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Road Safety in India – Issues
1. Too many vehicles on road
2. Most of the road signs are covered with posters and mud
3. Condition of roads is bad
4. Traffic lights malfunction too often
5. People don’t follow traffic rules
6. Cars are parked in no-parking areas
7. Lane driving not followed
8. Most of the accidents occur due to heavy vehicles rash and reckless driving on road
9. No properly designed footpaths for pedestrians
10. No standard measurements for speed-breakers
11. Not enough foot-over-bridges and zebra crossings to cross the roads
12. Over speeding causes a lot of accidents
13. Overloading of passenger and goods vehicles is also a big issue
14. Corruption at the RTO for issuing driving licence
15. Digging on road done by public departments
16. Roads are not wide enough
17. Drunk driving
18. Poor control on the animals which frequently trespass the roads
19. Underage driving
20. Heavy vehicles ply on the roads during no entry timings
21. Heavy vehicles do not drive in the designated lane on the left
22. Driving with headlights on high beam
23. Overcrowding of the city buses
24. People drive while taking on mobile phone
25. Bikers ride on the footpath to beat traffic
26. Rickshaws cause a lot of accidents
27. Tripling on two wheelers
28. No dividers in the middle of the roads
29. People use the rescue lane for over taking
30. No fencing along the highways
31. Dedicated cycling paths missing more

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Ranbir Sinha (Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Make it mandatory for parents to put helmet on the children on 2-wheelers, Children car seat for children in the cars. We copied the cars and motorcycles from the west but not their safety rules. Children should not suffer because of the ignorance and stupidity of the parents. more

Mar 28

Jayakumar Iyer

if any thing is required from me i will give support for the same more

Mar 28

Jayakumar Iyer

since from 18 years i am already doing lot or progamme on road safety through transport authority of govt.of karntaka more

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