Road Accident Prevention PowerPoint for Road Safety

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Road Safety Action Plan

• Steps to be taken
• for Preventing
• Road Accidents

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Road 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.

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Road Accident Statistics

• One child is killed in
• Road Accidents,
• every three minutes
• in the World.

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Road Accident Statistics

• Total worldwide death toll of
• Tsunami of 2004 was about 230,000.
• But the annual worldwide death toll of
• Road Accidents is 1,200,000 !!!
• i.e. more than
• five times the Tsunami toll.

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Steps 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.

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How 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.
  

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How 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.

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How 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.)

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How 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.

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How 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.
  

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How 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.
  

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How to prevent Road Accidents

• All those who do not maintain the safe distance
  for the speed should be punished.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How to prevent Road Accidents

• Ensure that the money recovered as Road Tax is
  fully utilised for the construction /maintenance
  of roads.  

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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 !!!

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How 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.
  

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How 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.
  

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How 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.
  

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How 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.

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How 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

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How 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).

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How 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.
  

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How to prevent Road Accidents

• Increasing visibility near curvatures. Sometimes
  even cutting of grass to increase visibility can
  help save many lives.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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How to prevent Road Accidents

• Black color should not be permitted for Cycles.
  Preferred / Default color for Cycles should be
  Yellow.

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How 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.

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How 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.

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More Road Accident facts

• Number of annual
• road accidents is
• more than the
• total population
• of Mauritius.

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More Road Accident facts

• 5 Tsunamis are wiping out
• lives from the world every year,
• in the form of Road Accidents.
• Nobody is noticing it !!!

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More Road Accident facts

• 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.
•  

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More Road Accident facts

• Thousands of soldiers
• sacrificed their lives.
• Hundreds of innocents were killed in the war
  against terrorism.
  

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• Unfortunately nobody is bothered to fight Road
  accidents.
  
• Are you ready ?

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• to save many lives

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