INTRODUCTION
- India has the dubious distinction of a very poor safety record
- More than a lakh people get killed on India's roads every year
- Engineering, Enforcement and Education are the three E's of safety
CAUSES OF ROAD ACCIDENTS
- Some of the common errors due to human beings resulting in road accidents are as follows
- Over speeding, rash driving
- Drunk driving
- Distracted driver
- Jumping red signal
- Avoiding safety gear like helmet and seat belt
- Violation of rules
- Failure to understand signs
- Fatigue
- Pedestrians contribute to road accidents by
- Carelessness
- Illiteracy
- Crossing at wrong places
- Moving on the carriageway
- Jaywalking
- Passengers of vehicles cause accidents by
- Projecting their body outside the vehicle
- Talking to drivers
- Alighting and boarding vehicle from the wrong side
- Travelling on foot boards
- Catching a running bus, etc
- Vehicles
- Failure of brakes or steering
- Tyre burst
- Insufficient headlights
- Overloading
- Projecting loads
- Road conditions
- Potholes
- Damaged road
- Eroded road
- Merging of rural roads with highways
- Diversions
- Illegal speed breakers
- Weather conditions
- Fog
- Snow
- Heavy rainfall
- Wind storms
- Hail storms
- Direct consequences of accidents
- Death
- Injury
- Property damage
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