Road Traffic Accident

The World Health Organization on Monday called on countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region to accelerate measures to reduce road traffic deaths, a leading cause of mortality among young people aged 15-29.

A man who sought money after cleaning cars at traffic signals in Telangana's Nizamabad district died after being run over by a tipper lorry allegedly when a government officer travelling in a four-wheeler kicked him following an argument.

All three people involved in the crash were treated for injuries and released.

Over 1.2 million die every year in road crash incidents and between 20 and 50 million people suffer injuries globally in road accidents that even incur disability, according to the World Health Organization.

Good roads lead to high-speed traffic movement, posing the risk of losing control over the vehicles, said a BJP lawmaker in Madhya Pradesh while explaining the rising road accidents in the state.

Mumbai witnessed a decline in casualties due to road accidents by 30 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year thanks to the awareness campaigns conducted by the traffic police, a senior official said on Monday.

Nineteen people were killed and 20 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China's Jiangxi province, state media reported.

A total of 1,997 road accidents occurred in 2021 due to the use of mobile phone by drivers while driving, which claimed 1,040 lives, according to a Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) report.

A woman riding a scooter on a busy road is run over after being hit by a car door in a short clip shared by the Karnataka State Road Safety Authority's Twitter handle.

Over-speeding constituted the main traffic rule violation associated with accident related deaths (69.3 per cent) and injuries (73.4 per cent), followed by driving on wrong side, drunken driving, use of mobile phone and jumping red light in 2020.

According to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the number of traffic accidents in the country increased from 3,68,828 in 2020 to 4,22,659 in 2021.

A BMW test car veered into oncoming traffic in Germany on Monday, according to German police in the southwestern town of Reutlingen. The electric BMW iX brushed an oncoming Citroen which crashed into another vehicle with two people on board, pushing it off the road and causing it to burst into flames. The BMW then hit a Mercedes-Benz van head-on, r...

A video is winning hearts on the internet where a traffic police is seen sweeping the road to remove small pebbles and rocks while the traffic signal is red. These unwanted particles could lead to tyre punctures.

Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari speaks of tough measure in apparent jest at an event in Delhi

The traffic comes to a halt after the accident. The zoomed in video shows the high-speed car and one other vehicle badly damaged.

The World Health Organization on Monday called on countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region to accelerate measures to reduce road traffic deaths, a leading cause of mortality among young people aged 15-29.

A man who sought money after cleaning cars at traffic signals in Telangana's Nizamabad district died after being run over by a tipper lorry allegedly when a government officer travelling in a four-wheeler kicked him following an argument.

All three people involved in the crash were treated for injuries and released.

Over 1.2 million die every year in road crash incidents and between 20 and 50 million people suffer injuries globally in road accidents that even incur disability, according to the World Health Organization.

Good roads lead to high-speed traffic movement, posing the risk of losing control over the vehicles, said a BJP lawmaker in Madhya Pradesh while explaining the rising road accidents in the state.

Mumbai witnessed a decline in casualties due to road accidents by 30 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year thanks to the awareness campaigns conducted by the traffic police, a senior official said on Monday.

Nineteen people were killed and 20 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China's Jiangxi province, state media reported.

A total of 1,997 road accidents occurred in 2021 due to the use of mobile phone by drivers while driving, which claimed 1,040 lives, according to a Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) report.

A woman riding a scooter on a busy road is run over after being hit by a car door in a short clip shared by the Karnataka State Road Safety Authority's Twitter handle.

Over-speeding constituted the main traffic rule violation associated with accident related deaths (69.3 per cent) and injuries (73.4 per cent), followed by driving on wrong side, drunken driving, use of mobile phone and jumping red light in 2020.

According to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the number of traffic accidents in the country increased from 3,68,828 in 2020 to 4,22,659 in 2021.

A BMW test car veered into oncoming traffic in Germany on Monday, according to German police in the southwestern town of Reutlingen. The electric BMW iX brushed an oncoming Citroen which crashed into another vehicle with two people on board, pushing it off the road and causing it to burst into flames. The BMW then hit a Mercedes-Benz van head-on, r...

A video is winning hearts on the internet where a traffic police is seen sweeping the road to remove small pebbles and rocks while the traffic signal is red. These unwanted particles could lead to tyre punctures.

Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari speaks of tough measure in apparent jest at an event in Delhi

The traffic comes to a halt after the accident. The zoomed in video shows the high-speed car and one other vehicle badly damaged.