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Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has been taking multiple initiatives including those related to vehicular and road engineering as well as educational measures for raising awareness in the field of Road Safety.

This report serves as the principal reference document on various aspects of accidents and suicide in the country. 

Children in cars need to be restrained in seats that are tailormade for their height and weight and age. This is because the belt should fall correctly across the shoulder and chest and not cover the neck or face. (Data source: thecarseatlady.com) #…

World Health Organisation (WHO) is committed to ensuring that everyone, everywhere, can realize the right to good health. Every year on 7 April, which marks the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948, is celebrated as World Health Day and it…

Just like adults are protected from injury and death by seat belts in cars, children too need to be to protected by child restraint systems. Holding a child on the lap does not provide safety! #roadsafety #saferoadsindia   

Traveling late in the night is risky, with two wheeler it is more dangerous. I realised this recently when I was returning home late in the night. Seeing there was no one on the road I was travelling at 60 kmph in my two wheeler, Suddenly an auto…

Chennai has a lot of subways under railway tracks. Invariably most subways have puddles of water from sewage pipes or rain. These places are particularly risky for two wheelers. A few years back while I was going to meet my friend at Tambaram, I…

  This is an incident from when I was a child, but the memory is so horrific that I still remember the details. On that day, my father was in a hurry to drop me and my brother off at school. A traffic light near my school in Alwarpet was not working…

I travel home on a two wheeler during weekends from Puducherry to Karaikal to be with my family. However on one such trip in December 2019 I met with a road crash. Travelling at around 60 kmph, a dog suddenly crossed the road. I applied my brakes to…

I live pretty close to a major school in Anna Nagar. In pre Covid-19 days, when schools were still up and running, young boys of that school, from 9th std to 12 std, used to ride around on expensive bikes like the Duke R15. Being young, their…