Road Safety In India
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Nitin Gadkari is right! India can reduce its road accident deaths by 50%: Here’s how
Sarika Panda Bhatt •India, despite just 1 per cent of global motor vehicles, accounts for more than 10 per cent of all road traffic deaths globally. Annually, around 150,000 people lose their lives on Indian roads

Six airbags to be made mandatory for cars from October 1
Ians123 •The Minister also said that compulsory airbags are very important from a road safety point of view and that is why we made them mandatory for all cars including in the economic models too.

Centre's new rules for children riding pillion on two-wheelers: Helmet and safety harness a must
Fp Staff •Amending Rule 138 of Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, the Centre notified that the speed of a motorcycle with a child up to the age of four years being carried on the pillion will not be more than 40 kmph

Assam: 10, including two minors, dead after autorickshaw collides head-on with speeding truck
Fp Staff •As per Assam Police, the victims, all residents of Longai Tea Estate, were returning after attending a Chhath puja

Kishie Singh wins IRF Media Road Safety Award
Overdrive •Becomes part of an elite group of eminent road safety professionals in the media

Shivani Bali to Jahnavi Gadkar: 'Oh look, drunken woman driver' is now the hottest media beat
Fp Staff •If the recent news cycle and headlines are anything to go by, it matters deeply if a rash driver is a man or a woman.

Telangana accident: India goes from bad to worse on road safety of children
Fp Archives •According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 20 children under the age of 14 years die daily in road accidents in India.



