{"id":246693,"date":"2023-06-06T19:53:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=246693"},"modified":"2023-06-06T19:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:23:45","slug":"lapses-in-road-safety-a-casual-attitude-to-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lapses-in-road-safety-a-casual-attitude-to-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapses in Road Safety: A casual attitude to safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cA casual attitude to safety\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0\u201cThe Indian Express\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a06th June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus:<\/strong> GS 3 – Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the Lapses in Road Safety.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: India has just witnessed its most horrific train accident in over two decades in Odisha. A bus carrying some of the injured persons from the train accident site in Balasore to a hospital had a head-on collision with a van in Bengal\u2019s Medinipur district. This questions the issue of road safety and railway safety.<\/p>\n

About the recent train accident and the issue of railway safety in India<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Must read: <\/strong>The Issue of Indian railway safety \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the reasons for lapses in road safety?<\/h2>\n

There are five primary reasons for accidents \u2014 and deaths and injuries due to accidents. They are<\/p>\n

Faulty design<\/strong>: Every highway, modern or old, has several well-identified \u201cdeath traps\u201d. The majority of bad accidents take place primarily because of bad design.<\/p>\n

Poor maintenance and wear and tear<\/strong>: The Morbi Bridge tragedy in Gujarat is an example of poor maintenance.<\/p>\n

Improper safety protocols and regulations<\/strong>: These include selling of cars that would not meet crash test regulations, poor implementation of seat belts in automobiles, etc.<\/p>\n

Human error<\/strong>: This is sometimes compounded by fatigue and boredom.<\/p>\n

Wilful flouting of safety regulations and norms<\/strong>: This is due to both societal attitudes as well as lack of law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: SC directs committee to build a framework to ensure road safety<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Consumer and citizen safety has to be the priority for successive governments. Indian citizens should hold the authorities responsible for poor safety and quality enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Road Safety in India \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cA casual attitude to safety\u201d published in\u00a0\u201cThe Indian Express\u201d\u00a0on\u00a06th June 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 – Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc. Relevance: About the Lapses in Road Safety. News: India has just witnessed its most horrific train accident in over two decades in Odisha. A bus… Continue reading Lapses in Road Safety: A casual attitude to safety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-246693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}