Category Archives: Research and Statistics

Road deaths will dramatically increase in the world’s poorest countries unless governments and multilateral development banks swiftly and radically overhaul their transport policies, according to a new report. Already, 1.3 million people lose their lives on the world’s roads every more »

2012 was the 9th consecutive year in reducing road fatalities in Spain, achieving a new record. The number of fatalities was 1304 with a reduction of 180 people in comparison with 2011. As average there is a reduction of 4 more »

Road traffic injuries kill nearly 1.3 million people annually. If current trends continue, road crashes are predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Until recently, the extent of the road safety situation around the world was more »

The number of deaths on South African roads is staggering. With about 14 000 people killed on South African roads each year the cost of this tragic harvest is impossible to calculate. There are war zones in other parts of more »

Pretoria — Transport Minister Ben Martins has announced that 1 465 people lost their lives on the country’s roads during the festive season. The main causes of the road fatalities during the period between 1 December 2012 and 8 January more »

ISLAMABAD – Most of the residents living across the Islamabad Expressway are not using overhead bridges built at various points, which imperils their life and have led fatal accidents. Despite warnings by the police and traffic instructions,pedestrians reluctant to climb more »

LUDHIANA: Smooth, wide and tree-lined, there is nothing on the surface to betray the danger lurking on city roads. Over the last five years, pedestrians have been falling prey to fatal road accidents. They constitute the majority of casualties in more »

The horrible gang rape and assault on a girl medical student in New Delhi on the night of December 16 has led to calls for hanging and castration of the criminals. But the incident needs to be seen more critically more »

INDORE: Ever increasing number of vehicles, poor traffic management and lack of traffic sense among Indoreans are claiming more and more young life-mainly college students—in avoidable road accidents in Indore. Road accidents in city are claiming two lives in a more »

MUSCAT — An incomplete SMS or a half-way ended conversation, are very often the unfortunate remnants found in the crushed mobile phones at accident sites that the Royal Oman Police (ROP) investigates frequently, according to a key official at the more »

NEW DELHI: A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has awarded a compensation of Rs 36.98 lakh to a 40-year-old man, who suffered 90% permanent disability in a road mishap involving a rashly-driven car. The tribunal directed ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company more »

Waiting for a revolution on two wheels — Putting more Indians on bicycles for their regular commute would yield multiple benefits: freedom from fossil fuels, reduced pollution and congestion. Official policy recognises all these gains, but has failed to reinvent more »

At least 30% of casualties on road in the country take a toll on lives of those in the age group of 15 to 25 years, says the recent WHO (World Health Organization) report. Ironically, the worst indicator of the more »

Acting promptly during the golden hour — the crucial hour from the time of accident to the time when the victim reaches the hospital — can go a long way in saving a person’s life, say doctors. Any delay of more »

Experts call for laws mandating use of devices to save lives Millions of Chinese parents are putting their children’s lives in danger by not using child car seats, safety experts and industry insiders warn. China had 114 million automobiles on more »

PUNE: Social organisations and noted cartoonist and traffic safety activist Mangesh Tendulkar distributed road safety awareness greeting cards to people on the occasion of Diwali on Tuesday. The Diwali cards had special cartoons created by Tendulkar. He has been spreading more »

SUSONO, Japan — Toyota Motor Corp. is testing car safety systems that allow vehicles to communicate with each other and with the roads they are on in a just completed facility in Japan the size of three baseball stadiums.

The economic downturn has dramatically cut the number of deaths on Britain’s roads, new research suggests. Since Britain went into recession the number of people killed on the roads has fallen by more than a third, from 2,946 in 2007 more »

AUSTRALIA will undertake its first “naturalistic” driving study when 400 cars are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to capture driver behaviour.

KAJANG: Seven of the country’s most popular cars will be undergoing crash tests from Thursday – Jan 10 to ascertain its safety. The seven are sedan cars from Nissan, Hyundai, Proton, Honda, Toyota, Ford and Perodua. Malaysian Institute of Road more »