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sad news........but yes, a lot of fatal acidents do happen in india.

Adding fuel to fire - India No 1 in road accident deaths

its true us indians are completely negligent of traffic rules....... which is the main reason for accidents........

when my brother went to the UK he ran a light there and the surveillance cam caught only half of his number plate and yet they had tracked him down and he had to pay a fine

just making traffic rules is not enough seeing to it that they are followed is also important.......like the helmet rule was implemented for a month and then cops got tired of stopping everyone on the streets and telling them to wear a helmet.....

The problem is not only people breaking traffic rules, the problem is also the infrastructure, that is badly designed signals, pedestrians crossings, quality of roads, pot holes (I mean craters), silly and dangerous center partitions which cannot be seen, poor lighting.

I will give you an example. In Pune there is a excellent road called Nagar Road, most places it will almost 3 lanes on each side, concrete and almost no potholes. The problem is, the start of the road has an amazing 4 feet high and 5 feet wide center divider. But that only lasts for about 2kms. After it nothing!! The problems began when someone decided to extend the divider all the way to the airport, another 3-4kms. The way they did it, was to use only a 6" tall and 4" wide concrete thing and do it up in parts. I almost witnessed 10 minor and 5 major accidents in the span of 2 days cause the small divider was simply not visible in the day or night.

The major accidents I have witness almost 40% of them are due to road works not being identified clearly, or someone has just not cleaned up after themselves. All contractors should be legally liable if they cause an accident due to insufficient warning signs or repair work.

To add to it, Pune has to be the capital of the worst roads on this planet. Horrible infrastructure, improperly planned and constructed roads and glaring absence of basic lighting at night.

Most of the concrete roads are so improperly leveled that any vehicle on the road is never stable. These roads are now permanently bad roads since concrete roads might (never know) stay this way for years. Old airport road is a prime example. From the Central Jail to Yerwada signal, the road has the most horrible of levels ever seen on any road.

Add to it, craters that would entice NASA to test their Mars Rover here.

Exatcly.
Here in the Cochin City.The signals at the Jn. work at Random!Most of the major Jn. have their Signal only ON every now and then,sometimes there will be a cop instead and sometimes noting at all!
and by 10-11PM most of the Major Signals at the Jn. are switched off! WTF?ad ppl are speeding through the Jn.!

Instead of just finding fault with infrastructure, we need to first focus on following rules. How many of us slow at blinking yellow light (many don't even stop at red light)? I have seen xbhp get together where everyone is ignoring lights and riding above 100kmph. When the members of an internet forum (thus implying atleast a decent enough education level) does not follow rules, just imagine how many others are there who do not follow rules (riding / driving on wrong side to avoid few extra metres to take a U turn, riding 3up, no consideration to lights etc)

The change needs to come from within and we need to give bit more importance to a human life, be it ours or of others.

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Everyone holds the other person responsible for any mistake that happens. Some people are plain insensitive or some even act too smart to the extent that they think that rules are stupid/ breaking rules is fun.

Where are the traffic rules ?

In baroda, we find that most of the ppl do not want to wear helmets because;
1. They can chat on mobile while riding,
2. They can eat ghutka while riding,
3. They can spit while riding
4. Have seen some ppl texting while riding too.
They carry their helmets, if they have one, on the RVM , just to put it on in case they see a cop at a crossing.

Crossings: What are they.. they are junctions where u can go anywhere, without going around the circle or even if the cop is standing there.

Roads: There is everything on them from cows, dogs, craters, bumps, water leakages, temples (yes temples in the middle of the road).

Biggest congestion on the road is autorikshaws. they park their autos in a side-by-side manner, blocking half the road. Even if we have 100m wide roads, they would be small.