Road Traffic Crashes: One of the Biggest Public Health & Injury Problems

Road Traffic Safety is a biggest issue for all road users. Day by day increasing road accidents are affected not only the life of people but also Indian Economic. Increasing Road Crashes is the reason of spending money on increasing the services for road crashes Emergency Services, Medical Services, Ambulance Services (Ambulance Service Delhi) etc. The term road traffic safety is a suggestion of how to safe a person on some exacting road, or on the roads belonging to some region. The main threat to road users is the likelihood of a traffic crash. Such dangers can be reduced by building roads in alignment with competent traffic engineering practices, by the application of rational traffic control methods and by designing road vehicles so that they can be more able to avoid and survive collisions.

Road traffic crashes are one of the biggest public health & injury problems. The problem is more heightened in all because the victims are overwhelmingly healthy previous to their crashes. According to the WHO (World Health Organization) more than a million people are killed on the world’s roads every year. A report issued by the WHO in the year 2004 predictable that some 1.2m people were killed and 50m people were injured in traffic collisions on the roads around the world every year and was the leading reason of death among children 10 to 19 years of age. About 50 to 100 people die in road accidents in Delhi everyday, which is equivalent to a plane crash having no survivors.

Every year in Delhi almost two thousand people lose their lives in road accidents equal to the number of people dying of heart attack & cancer. But petite attention is paid to road safety in daily lives. Experts feel it is important to deal with the subject and draft out a strategy to bring down the victims on roads. As 95% of the road accident victims comprise of slow moving vehicles & pedestrians, there is a need to guard this category of road users. “If we provide a safe passage to pedestrians, two-wheeler riders and cyclists on our roads, who include 52%, 28% and 5% of road accident victims each year respectively, the accident rates will greatly be controlled,'' said by SN Shrivastava, joint commissioner of police (traffic).