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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Future scourges
when the new century rolls in, it will bring in its wake more mental illnesses and deaths and disabilities due to traffic accidents, according to a World Health Organization ( who ) report
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To wake you up
Good news for somnolent drivers: a new system that wakes them up if they are feeling drowsy on the wheels is all set to enter the market
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A NATION OF ACCIDENTS
According to a World Bank report, Bangladesh has the highest rate of accidents in South Asia, with 170 people killed per 10,000 vehicles annually. A shocking 93.7 per cent of driving licenses in
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Highways of death
High risk levels and pathetically inadequate disaster management plans tar Indian roads as danger zones
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Killed by indifference
When two young people die in a highway accident, is it destiny or a callous and indifferent administration?
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Tissue transplant: by whose consent?
The removal of the corneas from the body of an accident victim in France, shocked the public and exposed the legal and ethical failings of the transplant system
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Mean streets
GRUESOME highway accidents are so common in India that they are routinely relegated to the inside pages of newspapers. But the month of March took, as it were, the cake (see pages 18-19): in the
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Wings clipped by age
A US study refutes the notion that airline pilots nearing 60 are more likely to cause accidents than their younger colleagues. The two-year study, which analysed accident data between 1976 and
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Speed not the only killer
Reckless Tempo Drivers, Careless Pedestrians, Heavy Tonnage Vehicles Account For Accidents If you manage to reach home alive out of the traffic mayhem each day, especially Sunday, thank your stars. Reckless tempo drivers, a careless pedestrian doing an obstacle race between moving vehicles during peak hours, trucks jabbing a rickshaw, cyclist or a hawker and a bumper to bumper ride
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Indian roads are getting safer but rural areas the new death-traps
Rural areas account for over 60% of all deaths; Delhi may have highest number of fatalities but has one of the lowest number of deaths per 10,000 vehicles: 4.8