Title: Road Accident Prevention PowerPoint for Road Safety
1Road Safety Action Plan
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- Steps to be taken
- for Preventing
- Road Accidents
2Road Accident Statistics
-
- More than 1.2 million
- people are killed
- in Road Accidents
- worldwide every year.
- 2 to 3 of Gross National Product
- Is lost in Road Accidents.
3Road Accident Statistics
- One child is killed in
- Road Accidents
- every three minutes
- in the World.
-
4Road Accident Statistics
- Total worldwide death toll of
- Tsunami of 2004 was about 230000.
- But the annual worldwide death toll of
- Road Accidents is 1200000 !!!
- i.e. more than
- five times the Tsunami toll.
5Steps to be taken for preventing Road Accidents
- Most important method to bring down accidents is
strict enforcement of speed limits.
- 90 of accidents can be avoided by strict
enforcement of speed limits.
- Existing speed limits should be brought down
further.
6How to prevent Road Accidents
- Heavy Penalty should be imposed on ALL those who
cross speed limits. If this is strictly
implemented nobody will dare to go at high
speed. - Heavy penalty should be imposed for those who
cause accidents.
7How to prevent Road Accidents
- Tamper proof speed controllers should be made
mandatory for all heavy vehicles. New heavy
vehicles should have built in tamper proof speed
controllers.
8How to prevent Road Accidents
- Two wheeler manufacturers should be asked to
design two wheelers with a designed maximum speed
of (say) 50/60 kmph.
- ( Suitable speed limit may be selected for each
country.)
9How to prevent Road Accidents
- New gadgets are to be developed for collision
prevention and should be fitted on all vehicle.
Research organizations should be asked to develop
such gadgets on a war footing. For example
gadgets can be developed to automatically slow
down the vehicle if safe distance commensurate
with the speed of the vehicle in front is not
maintained.
10How to prevent Road Accidents
- Diving tests for issue of Driving license is to
be made more stringent and foolproof.
- Raising of lower age limit for two wheeler and
Heavy Vehicle license to 21.
11How to prevent Road Accidents
- Helmet should be made compulsory by law in all
states OR impose a lower speed limit for those
who do not use helmet.
- Helmet should be made compulsory for back seat
riders also.
12How to prevent Road Accidents
- Ensure that all Helmet users are fixing the
Chinstrap of Helmet. Otherwise it will not help
during an accident.
- Ensure that ONLY good quality Helmets are
available in the market.
- Strict enforcement of existing traffic rules.
13How to prevent Road Accidents
- Law should be modified such that the person who
made the accident has to bear (say) 0 to 10 of
the insurance claims depending on severity of
negligence. Also the compensations should be made
very huge making accidents unaffordable so that
everyone will be very vigilant.
14How to prevent Road Accidents
- All those who do not maintain the safe distance
for the speed should be punished.
15How to prevent Road Accidents
- Safety awareness should begin from childhood as
it is difficult to impart awareness to a grown up
a human. If safety awareness is imparted at
childhood safety will be a habit.
16How to prevent Road Accidents
- Video / Computer Games that simulate Racing
should be banned by Government OR discouraged by
parents as it will develop racing habit in
children.
17How to prevent Road Accidents
- All sorts of Motor sports especially racing
should be banned by government. Telecast of Motor
Sports and Racing also should be banned.
18How to prevent Road Accidents
- Racing and over speed / highly risky riding
driving by Heroes should not be filmed in cinemas
and TV serials. Government should censor such
scenes.
19How to prevent Road Accidents
- Children below a certain age should not be
permitted to do cycling in busy roads / roads
where heavy vehicles are plying.
20How to prevent Road Accidents
- Refreshment parlors should be made available at
(say) every 50 / 100 k.m. on all national
highways and truck / heavy vehicle drivers should
be forced to refresh by having a face wash or by
having a cup of tea / coffee.
21How to prevent Road Accidents
- The current practice of keeping the traffic
signals in standby mode during nights and on
holidays is to be reviewed and discontinued if
found prudent.
22How to prevent Road Accidents
- Advertisement boards and other items that
may obstruct visibility at junctions curvatures
and other parts of the roads should be removed
immediately.
23How to prevent Road Accidents
- Ensure that the money recovered as Road Tax is
fully utilised for the construction /maintenance
of roads.
24How to prevent Road Accidents
- Time Punching of Private buses (practiced in some
states) should be discontinued as it is forcing
the drivers to go at high speed after traffic
blocks.
25How to prevent Road Accidents
- TV and other media should be effectively used for
Public safety awareness.
- Scientific analysis of major accidents / accident
prone areas.
- Restriction of speed at accident prone areas.
26How to prevent Road Accidents
- Enactment of stringent traffic rules.
- Immediate suspension of license of those who are
involved the accidents at least until they prove
that they are not guilty.
- Cancellation of license of those who make serious
accidents.
27How to prevent Road Accidents
- Proper maintenance of roads. Permanent contracts
/ arrangements should be in place for maintaining
all roads in good condition 24 hours a day 365
days an year. If a gutter is repaired in time it
can save a life !!!
28How to prevent Road Accidents
- Strict enforcement of health of vehicles.
- Periodic eye testing of old aged driving license
holders.
- Immediate cancellation of license of drunkard
drivers / riders.
29How to prevent Road Accidents
- Setting up of Judicial Commissions to monitor
steps taken to control road accidents.
- Straightening / Widening of roads Implementation
of one way traffic and construction of medians.
30How to prevent Road Accidents
- Footpaths and medians should be made mandatory
for important roads.
- Zebra crossings should be provided for
pedestrians for safe road crossings at
appropriate places.
31How to prevent Road Accidents
- Signals for road crossings at important busy
places where a large number of people have to
cross the road everyday.
- Proper marking of roads and signals.
32How to prevent Road Accidents
- Humps should be provided at all important places
accident prone areas.
- Construction size and shape of the Humps be
scientific. All the Contractors of the Public
Works / Other departments should be provided with
the details of scientific Hump construction
33How to prevent Road Accidents
- Humps should be clearly marked to avoid
accidents. Methods of permanent nature should be
followed in Hump marking. For example white
marble pieces / white color / fluorescent pigment
can be included in the mixture ( if
scientifically correct).
34How to prevent Road Accidents
- Provision of small pilot humps few meters before
humps can also be considered to ensure that humps
are not left unnoticed.
- Elimination of obstructions on road sides caused
by unauthorised construction / road side sales.
35How to prevent Road Accidents
- Increasing visibility near curvatures. Sometimes
even cutting of grass to increase visibility can
help save many lives.
36How to prevent Road Accidents
- Road Safety Day / Road Safety Week should be
observed in all Schools every year.
Competitions on Road Safety Tips Slogans Essay
Painting etc should be conducted for various
categories of students.
37How to prevent Road Accidents
- School Buses should be painted with Bright Yellow
color.
- Let Road Safety be a mandatory topic for School
Projects for all classes every year.
38How to prevent Road Accidents
- A small pool of water or a hanging branch of tree
on roadsides can cause accident as such
obstructions will make the pedestrians / drivers
to take sudden LATERAL movement and result in
accidents. Hence any obstruction on road sides
which can cause a LATERAL movement should be
completely rectified timely.
39How to prevent Road Accidents
- Black color should not be permitted for Cycles.
Preferred / Default color for Cycles should be
Yellow.
40How to prevent Road Accidents
- Front and Back of Lorries and Trucks should be
painted with bright Yellow color to increase
visibility. This will help to prevent collisions
while Lorries and Trucks are parked on roadside
without parking lights switched on.
41How to prevent Road Accidents
- Reflectors should be fixed on Front and Back of
Trucks and Lorries.
- Periodic review of accident statistics to
understand the effect of actions taken.
Corrective steps should be taken based on these
reviews.
42More Road Accident facts
- Number of annual
- road accidents is
- more than the
- total population
- of Mauritius.
43More Road Accident facts
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- 5 Tsunamis are wiping out
- lives from the world every year
- in the form of Road Accidents.
- Nobody is noticing it !!!
44More Road Accident facts
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- Few hundreds are killed
- by terrorism every year.
- Countries are spending billions and trillions of
dollars to fight terrorism.
- We had a war against terrorism.
-
-
45More Road Accident facts
-
- Thousands of soldiers
- sacrificed their lives.
- Hundreds of innocents were killed in the war
against terrorism.
-
46- Unfortunately nobody is bothered to fight Road
accidents.
- Are you ready
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