Abstract: In 2009 a total of 12 lakh (1,200,000) people died in road accidents in the world. More than ninety percent of those people died on roads in developing countries. The number of people injured during that year was three crore (30 million), of which more than one crore (10 million) were crippled. Pedestrians constituted the highest category of road users that were killed; 65 percent of the deaths involved pedestrians. The percentage of children among the fatalities was 23 percent. The situation is grim and is expected to be grimmer in the coming years, especially for countries in the developing world. According to the World Bank, road accidents will increase by 80 percent in low and middle income countries, such as India. It is urgent that serious attention be given to this problem and ways and means be devised to first reduce this growth and then ultimately to reduce the number of accidents.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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