The numbers say it all. Every four minutes a life is lost in a road accident in India with 1,40,000 deaths recorded in 2012 alone. In the past decade, over a million people have lost their lives in road accidents in the country and over 5 million have been left seriously injured or permanently disabled. Ms. Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, director of the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, in a release issued on Tuesday maintained that the unfortunate death of Union Minister for Rural Development Gopinath Munde in a road accident here on Tuesday morning once again draws attention to the critical issue of road safety. Only 28 countries, covering 7 per cent of the world’s population, have comprehensive road safety laws on five key risk factors: drinking and driving, speeding, and failing to use motorcycle helmets, seat-belts, and child restraints.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:14:06 +0000
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