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Need for new strategic intervention to reduce transport accident
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They need to understand the difference between luxury and
necessity!!
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responsible for those accidents
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implementation loophole or is it
unequipped vehicle which makes
it vulnerable as sitting duck in
the low visibility of fog? Though
each of these components are crucial in safe and efficient transportation
there are some easy fix to curb the traffic accident which transport
governing agencies either have failed to understand or have ignored
them. They have failed to understand the difference in the luxury and
necessity. They have also failed to understand the priority in transport
planning and management.
Take for example a very small
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component of transport domain
called “vehicle fog light”. Most of
us will agree that fog light of car
can be a life saving component in
winters, it can help avoid a
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2. 11/12/12 PlanningUrbanORegional: Need for new strategic intervention to reduce transport accident and casualt…
majority of accidents which occurs
on the roads across the India
every year though majority of cars
and other vehicle miss this vital
component. If you think you are a
smart guy just because you have
already installed fog light in your
car, you are wrong. You are not
safe till every vehicle on road has
this fog light installed, and there
is no doubt if every vehicle on
road would be equipped with fog-
light it will drastically reduce the
winter road accident rates. But
question is though it sounds good
to have fog light in every car on Intervention at production & supply level
road how would you make that
happen? Do you think a stringent rule or policy will help? May be stronger
implementation or monitoring? A higher penalty may be? Though it might
work in certain pockets, but it will certainly not work throughout the
country. Commuters have and will always find a way to avoid these
traffic rules no matter it’s for their own safety. They will wait every foggy
year to pass thinking that its matter of few days and they will get fog
light installed next winter unaware that these few days which they are
purposefully ignoring can be vital for their survival and well being of
others on road.
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and equipments which should be part and parcel of every car including
lowest segment cars, though it was absent at the time of accident which
would have saved those precious lives otherwise, just because
government and lobby of car manufacturers thought that these are luxury
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All that a government or transport regulatory body has to do is to add a
simple rule into the rule book of car and vehicle trade at manufacturer’s
end that “No manufacturer will be allowed to launch any car or vehicle
model of any segment in market without these life saving devices”. If
these devices are mandatory part of the car package and capital cost
consumer will definitely buy them but if left to their choice majority of
them will definitely won’t care to install them. Some kind of acceptable SUBSCRIBE
pricing arrangements can always be done, but there should not be any
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