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| India's 'cheapest car' comes at a cost |
| Nothing has generated as much hyperbole in the global automobile industry in recent years as the unveiling last week of an ultra-cheap bare-bones car made by the Tatas, India's steel and engineering giant. |
| 17/01/2008 | Read More.. |
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| No VIP wants to open Gurgaon flyover |
| A day after the unprecedented people’s inauguration of the Rao Tularam-Palam flyover, sources in National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said they doubted if any VIP would to inaugurate it now. |
| 17/01/2008 | Read More.. |
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| Behind-the-wheel exams sought for drivers 65 and older |
The 84-year-old woman with the purple Toyota Corolla believes she is a good, safe driver — not like her mother was at the same age.
Mom had always been a responsible driver but became too cautious with age, crawling down the road as if it were paved with molasses. After she was stopped by a police officer for driving too slowly, her daughter suggested it might be time to allow her license to expire. Did it work? |
| 18/12/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Foundation supports mandatory helmet law |
Play it safe The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation and Ha Noi Education and Training Department presented prizes to winners in their programme entitled Traffic Safety through the Lens of Kids, at four primary schools in Ha Noi yesterday.
There were eight A prizes, 15 B prizes, 21 C prizes and four collective prizes for pupils from Hoang Dieu, Hoang Hoa Tham, Chu Van An and Xuan La schools. |
| 18/12/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Holiday highway safety emphasized |
State police are reminding motorists this holiday season that the best gift they can give loved ones is to buckle up.
Troop B, which comprises the Belle Vernon, Washington, and Uniontown barracks, has investigated 66 fatal crashes so far this year.
Of the 74 people who died in those crashes, 59 percent were not wearing seatbelts. |
| 18/12/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Prepare Your Auto for Winter -- From Cleaning to Safety |
For those of us who live in seasonal climates, it’s time once again to get our vehicles ready for winter driving conditions. Whether the setting doles out heavy rain or white-out blizzards, preparing the car for changes in temperatures can help avoid possibly life-threatening situations.
“Having all points checked by your mechanic is a good habit to get into each fall season,” says Peter May of Lund International. |
| 30/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| The pleasures of cycling to work |
Citizen Journalist Rohan Kini cycles to work and has got many corporates in Bangalore hooked on to the eco-friendly way of travelling to office. He writes on the pleasure of cycling to work. Be the Change. Join him.
Cycle of change: The fun sustainable transport
Buy a good bike – Most people make the mistake of picking a crappy first bike, with the intention to get a better one once they are more serious. This is one of the reasons why most people give up too soon. Issues with the bike, bad gear shifting and heavy bikes don’t cut it and are a bad way to start something good. The reason bikers are ready to jump onto their bikes is because they enjoy the experience. Spend the money and pick up a good bicycle. Even if you don’t get around to using it, there will be some kids in the family who will. A bicycle is never a ‘waste’. |
| 29/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Kiran Bedi wants to hang up police uniform |
Kiran Bedi, a much-decorated police officer and the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972, has shot off a letter to the home ministry seeking voluntary retirement, citing "personal reasons".
"I have written to the home ministry for voluntary retirement for personal reasons and I have no idea if it has been accepted. At present I am serving a mandatory notice period of 90 days," Bedi said. |
| 28/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Ghana President’s Accident Sparks Road Safety Debate |
| In Ghana, an accident involving President John Kufuor’s car has sparked an intense debate about safety on the country’s’ roads. Kufuor reportedly escaped unhurt when a car crashed into his vehicle at a major intersection near the Kotoka International Airport in the capital Accra. He was on his way to work when the accident occurred. |
| 16/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Do your part for safety |
As we analyze the reports that our motor officers are submitting, it seems that many of these reports have some common elements. These elements in and of themselves might not lead to a crash, but when put together with other drivers and their own "elements," a crash is often the result.
Crashes are increasing each year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates that two-thirds of the 9 million crashes each year could be eliminated simply by drivers changing their individual driving habits. That's 6 million crashes and an astronomical amount of damage, injury and death that would not happen if we would each do our part. That means that here in St. George we would only have 800 crashes instead of 2,500 reported in a year's time. What can we do? Failure to yield and following too close are two top causes of crashes. |
| 14/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Concern over rising road accidents |
Speakers at a seminar on road safety have expressed concern at the peculiar driving habits of Keralites, antiquated laws, inadequate enforcement and bad condition of roads.
The seminar was organised by the Rotary Club of Kalamassery as part of Project Road, a road safety project of Rotary District 3200. Additional Director General of Police Jacob Punnose said that Kerala’s roads present a ghastly picture. |
| 14/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| AAA: 51% Of Colorado Teens Text While Driving |
DENVER A little more than half of Colorado teenagers admitted to sending or receiving text messages while driving when surveyed online by AAA Colorado over 30 days earlier this fall, the automobile club said Tuesday.
Sixty-six percent admitted to talking on their cell phone while driving in the same survey. The Colorado figures are much higher than those found in a recent AAA national survey, where the rates were 46 percent (texting) and 51 percent (talking). |
| 14/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Neglect of duty by Traffic Police in India |
| The belief that traffic police neglect their duty is only partially true. We should revise our perspective in this regard. The old rules based on the traffic and vehicles decades ago has to be revised and care should be taken of the traffic cops. |
| 14/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Measures discussed to improve road safety |
CHENNAI: Every day, 400 new vehicles are added to the Chennai roads. About 300 people die every day in accidents involving automobiles all over the country.
According to the Automobile Association of Upper India president and CEO, T.K. Malhotra, though India accounts for only 0.5 per cent of the world’s vehicular population, the number of accidents accounts for 6.5 per cent of the automobile accidents in the world. |
| 04/11/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Tips for dealing with traffic at the schools |
If you have ever tried to make it through the DeWitt Public Schools campus during morning drop off times of 7:15 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. or 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., you have undoubtedly run into a traffic jam!
With the start of another school year, we are once again worried about the safety of our students.
It is vital that drivers courteously follow traffic rules. |
| 02/10/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Guidelines for driving schools being finalised: Transport Commissioner |
The Transport Department is in the process of finalising stringent guidelines for driving schools, Transport Commissioner C.P. Singh said here on Monday.
Speaking at a function organised by DaimlerChrysler India, he said, “There are a number of driving schools where people learn to drive two-wheelers and four-wheelers. The guidelines will ensure that only good drivers get licence,” he said. The guidelines will be ready within a fortnight. |
| 02/10/2007 | Read More.. |
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| “Right to Emergency Care” - A flooding rumour |
The Supreme Court has ruled that all injured persons especially in the
case of road traffic accidents, assaults, etc., when brought to a
hospital / medical centre, have to be offered first aid, stabilized and
shifted to a higher centre / government centre if required. It is only
after this that the hospital can demand payment or complete police
formalities. In case you are a bystander and wish to help someone in an
accident, please go ahead and do so. Your responsibility ends as soon
as you leave the person at the hospital. |
| 02/10/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Stepping up and out |
Stepping up and out
Educators get innovative in encouraging youngsters to walk to school
F or four years, Marcus Aluia got a ride to school. This year, he's walking.
Marcus is now in kindergarten, and he has switched from being pushed by his mother in a stroller, accompanying his two sisters to Bishop Elementary School in Arlington, to strolling with them.
"On the way to school, he's fine," said his mother, Caroline Aluia. "On the way home from school, he's tired."
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| 02/10/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Tips to workers: Take care |
Tens of thousands of Michigan workers will hear traffic safety messages starting today from a growing number of employers involved in a nationwide effort to reduce the number of crashes on the job and while commuting.
While the messages come from employers, organizers of Drive Safely Work Week hope they spread beyond the workplace to everyday life. |
| 02/10/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Money trumps safety |
Discipline on the road is a must. But instead of seeing police control traffic, they are seen collecting money from trucks and mini-trucks on the road.
Now the traffic police uses printed cards to collect money from the truck drivers on BT Road.
STPG is printed on the corner of this yellow card.
The name of the months are written on this card,which clearly states when the money is paid.
The owners and the truck drivers said they have to pay Rs 300 per month, while the owners of the mini trucks said they have to pay Rs 200 per month. |
| 02/10/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Reconstructing deaths for saving lives |
BY 2020, WHO predicts, road accidents which rank nine as of now would be the third biggest cause of concern, says Anoop Chawla, Mechanical Engineering professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
For the past two years, Chawla, together with colleague Sudipto Mukherjee, has been studying accidents occurring on Delhi roads. The objective is to find the problems that lead to accidents and solve them to make travelling safer. “We can’t call them ‘accidents’. The car is an engineering device and roads are also designed by engineers, so car ‘crashes’ are engineering problems,” explains Mukherjee. |
| 17/07/2007 | Read More.. |
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| India to be ready with hydrogen energy for transport sector by 2020 |
| India will be ready with hydrogen fuel for its transport sector as a major alternative to fossil fuel by 2020, according to scientists. Hydrogen will be ready in terms of production, storage and supply chain to be used in the transport sector by the end of the next decade, they said. |
| 17/07/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Making Racers Role Models for Safety |
| When Robert Kubica lost control of his BMW Sauber at 174 miles an hour and hit a concrete wall at the Canadian Grand Prix last month, it was one of the greatest impacts ever measured on a Formula One car. |
| 08/07/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Stop. Ready. Go. |
In a city synonymous with the IT industry in India, the Bangalore Traffic Police is using information technology to tackle a rampant problem -- and move forward.
The burgeoning population of road vehicles in Bangalore is widely seen as a sign of the change in its economic landscape. In the literal sense though, the landscape has posed a string of issues for governance, the traffic police on the ground, and the common man. But, as most analysts have stated in recent times, the lack of a single view among governing bodies is a critical factor that has compounded traffic management. |
| 16/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Top mistakes of young drivers |
Teen drivers are at greater risk for accidents than older adults — four times greater, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Gary Tsifrin of DriversEd.com shared his expertise on some of the most common mistakes young drivers make. |
| 16/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Indian Government Seeks to Tame Chaotic Roads |
| The Indian government has proposed a stiff increase in penalties for traffic offenses. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, reckless driving and chaotic conditions on the country's roads are blamed for tens of thousands of accidents. |
| 06/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Latinos, drinking and driving |
In vehicular accidents, the laws of physics don't care whether you're rich, poor, white, black or Hispanic. They'll shove you through a windshield, break your bones or kill an innocent bystander.
That's why all drivers, whatever their income or ethnicity, should drive safely. Yet cultural and economic differences do show up in traffic statistics. Poorer motorists may have cars without air bags. Rural residents face badly lit roads and other risks. Immigrants may be unfamiliar with traffic conditions or laws. |
| 06/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Editorial: Drink-drive limit is out of step |
| National road policing manager Superintendent Dave Cliff was hardly speaking out of turn in calling for a drastic reduction in breath and blood alcohol limits. Other leading police officers and road-safety specialists have made similar appeals, all to no avail. To some degree, they failed to gain traction because of a perception that New Zealand's law is relatively strict; that not too much liquor needs to be consumed before the current limits are breached. This, however, is far from the case. |
| 06/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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| NHAI’s road safety plan needs overhaul: WB |
| A World Bank team that had come to assess Indian highways last year has criticised the highway upgradation plan of the National Highways Authority of India. The World Bank team of engineers headed by Kumares C Sinha, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Purdue, USA, has termed road safety “a serious problem on Indian highways”. |
| 03/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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| Argentina's deadly traffic a factor in elections |
Argentina - Taxi driver Jose Gonzales Gallego knows firsthand that driving in this metropolis of 13 million people isn't for the faint of heart.
Although Buenos Aires is known for its sophistication and its literary airs, its streets are another story, he said. Cars speed down narrow roads, swerving around scurrying pedestrians, while buses roar through traffic lights and stop signs. Pile-ups are common, and so are fatalities. |
| 03/06/2007 | Read More.. |
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