{"id":89251,"date":"2019-09-10T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T09:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T09:59:54","slug":"centre-asks-states-to-identify-accident-prone-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-asks-states-to-identify-accident-prone-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks States to identify accident-prone spots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued guidelines to States for identifying accident \u2018black spots\u2019 on national highways and rectifying them.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Black spots:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A black spot is defined as a stretch not more than 500m in length where five accidents have taken place or where ten fatalities have happened in the last three years.<\/li><li>Black spots account for 90% of road accidents in the country.<\/li><li>Hence,the measures chalked out by the government to curb accidents in such spots assumes significance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Statistics on Road accidents:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to the Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways data,road accidents in India has killed around 1.5 lakh people every year between 2015 and 2017.<\/li><li>This works out to a daily average of 400 or more deaths in each of the three years.<\/li><li>Further,World Health Organisation (WHO)\u2019s Global Status report on Road Safety has also stated that road accidents are the leading cause of death among people in the 5-29 age-group worldwide.<\/li><li>According to the report,India might be losing 2,99,000 people each year due to road accidents.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued guidelines to States for identifying accident \u2018black spots\u2019 on national highways and rectifying them. Facts: About Black spots: A black spot is defined as a stretch not more than 500m in length where five accidents have taken place or where ten fatalities have happened in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-asks-states-to-identify-accident-prone-spots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre asks States to identify accident-prone spots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6686,6545],"class_list":["post-89251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-black-spots","tag-road-accidents","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704871636},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89251","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}