Tag: safe driving

Make Dashcam a Must. Keep Indian Roads Safe for Driving.

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?

One death every three minutes. 462 a day. 1.68 lakh died in road accidents in India in the year 2022 alone. It’s a record high for the country.

And the numbers continue to rise. What are the reasons?

Some attribute it to human error. Some blame it on the bad quality of city roads. And a lot has got to do with the poor maintenance of vehicles.

Let me do something in my own life so that this human error doesn’t cost a life on Indian roads. Any longer. 

Make dashcam a mandatory requirement in vehicles plying on roads. 

Sit with the transport authorities in the country and emphasize the importance of employing a dashcam in vehicles. 

Those who get tickets on more than one occasion for traffic violations should appear in a hands-on training class with the specially appointed driving schools. They should be explained how to avoid situations that cause accidents on the basis of dashcam footage from their vehicles.

Let’s keep roads in India safe for driving. I shall kick-start a campaign in this regard. Today. 

Make Indian roads safe for driving.

What do you wish you could do more every day?

India accounts for the highest number of road accidents in the world.

Seven out of every 10 lives, or 70%, die due to speeding in India.

In an interview last month, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said that government intervention would not be enough unless citizens start following traffic rules more seriously.

I wish, therefore, I could do more by stopping citizens, educate them about safe driving and tell them to avoid speeding. And I hope that would help save lives on Indian roads.

I wish I could do it every day.