Human Safety While Driving and Our Corporate Social Responsibility Towards them - Galio

Do you know? One person dies every four minutes in road injuries in India, according to figuwres surveyed by a research working on safer roads. Approximating the price of such accidents at Rs 3.8 lakh crore or 3% of the GDP, the Researchers, 'Indians for Road Safety' further said that the number may rise to one death in three minutes by 2020.

Risk Factors of Driving

Rather than technical, its human factor that plays a role considerably to increasing number of street injuries in India. Drunken driving, over boosting, rejection to follow traffic rules, and reckless driving are significant reasons for street injuries. Drunken driving is one of the reasons for road traffic accidents especially among commercial vehicle motorists on roadways. Data shows drunken driving to be responsible for 70% of street deaths in Delhi and Mumbai. The danger of being involved in an accident improves considerably

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