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FIG 3.3 DEATHS DUE TO VARIOUS VEHICLE CATEGORIES IN 2015 [1] PERCENTAGE SHARE
31.5
17.2
7.4 11.4 9.5 12.7
5.0 2.1

BUS BICYCLE
TRUCK CAR 3- WHEELER PEDESTRIAN OTHERS
2- WHEELER

From this figure, it is clear that the percentage 3.2 CURRENT SAFETY TRENDS IN
share of accidents by two wheelers, cars and GLOBAL ROAD TRANSPORT
trucks are more than the other modes of Road traffic safety refers to methods and
transport put together. This is attributed partly measures undertaken for reducing the risk of
to an increase in number of vehicles on the a road network user being killed or seriously
road. India has twice the number of accidental injured. The users of a road include pedestrians,
deaths compared to US (18.9 and 10.4 deaths cyclists, motorists and passengers of public
per 1 lakh people respectively). The figure is all transport, mainly buses and trams. Road traffic
the more appalling when it is computed for 1 crashes are one of the world’s largest public
lakh motor vehicles, which indicates 134 deaths health and safety issue. According to WHO
in India against 15 in the US. Around 1.5 lakh report 2013, more than a million people are
people die in road accidents every year in India, killed on the roads worldwide each year and
compared to 33,000 in the US as specified in 50 million people are injured in traffic accidents
the WHO vehicle safety report 2013. While on the roads. Road accidents are the leading
the population of India is increased by 17.64% cause of death among children of 10 – 19 years
over the past ten years, the number of licensed age [2]. The report also noted that the problem
vehicles increased by 132% over the same was most severe in developing countries and
period [2]. that simple prevention measures could halve
the number of deaths. The standard measures

FIG 3.4
NUMBER OF FATALITIES[3]

3.0 | SWEDEN SWEDEN | 5.1
3.5 | UNITED KINGDOM UNITED KINGDOM | 6.2
4.3 | GERMANY GERMANY | 6.9
5.2 | AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA | 7.0
6.0 | CANADA CANADA | 9.3
7.4 | NEW ZEALAND PER 1,00,000 PER 1,00,000 NEW ZEALAND | 10.3
11.6 | USA POPULATION VEHICLES USA | 13.6
18.0 | WORLD AVERAGE WORLD AVERAGE | 93.3
18.6 | RUSSIA RUSSIA | 55.4
19.9 | INDIA INDIA | 211.8
20.5 | CHINA CHINA | 133.3
24.8 | MALAYSIA MALAYSIA | 31.4

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