According to World Health Organisation, road traffic crashes kill 1.2 million people a year or an average of 3242 people every day. The crashes injure or disable between 20 million and 50 million people a year. The traffic crashes rank as the 11th leading cause of death and account for 2.1% of all deaths globally.
Such are the perils of the roads and more so when you live in an underdeveloped country where the surfaces for the vehicles are not developed enough, not to talk about the road safety in India measures. The most regulated of roads cannot be accident-free. Road safety vis-à-vis the numbers sharing the roads is one of the most debatable issues. The issue comes around to analyzing accidents as a function of number of vehicles and the condition of roads.
The countries which have not known traffic jams at any time of the day, peak or no-peak hour and are blessed with wide and top-surface roads, too have accidents and quite gruesome ones. Their users are a pampered lot; they have no challenge on the roads and they grow into inattentive drivers, goes an argument.
Those brought up on chaotic and cacophonous traffic conditions, and who have to jostle their way through day in day out are trained to face any kinds of traffic conditions, be they snake-like zigzags or the super speeds of the top highways of the world.
Indian road traffic presents vignettes of all kinds. The Bangalore traffic is quite different from the Kolkata traffic. Mumbai traffic is an altogether different ball game to when compared to Delhi traffic. The Chennai traffic is getting its act together to welcome new era in car revolution.
One certainly grows used to what the traffic situations train him to. But it pays to be a good road user, save yourself and others by following the rules of the roads.
About Author: Abhimanyu Singh is a contributing author to the website Easy Drive Forum, It is the first ever Indian Road Traffic forum, It brings lots of Indian road users to a common platform, where they can discuss Road safety in India, Indian Traffic rules, Indian Road Traffic, Delhi Traffic, Mumbai Traffic, Bangalore Traffic etc.
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