India is a growing nation. In spite of our problems, we are trying to be among the top countries in the world. We will get there one day. But currently, India is leading the world in a regrettable metric: the number of lives lost in road crashes per year. Each…

The Honourable Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Mr. Nitin Gadkari, made a slew of announcements for road safety recently. Among these announcements, was the setup of the Bharat New Car Assessment Program or Bharat NCAP. Once implemented, the Bharat NCAP could be a game-changer for car safety in India! …

Whenever there is a discussion on a car’s safety, the term “car build quality” gets thrown around. A car is said to have a “Strong build” if the car has minimal damage in an accident. A car with higher damage has a “weak build” or is a “tin-can”. We find…

Road accidents are one of the top killers in our country with more than 1.5 lakh of our fellow countrymen losing their lives in road accidents, with many lakh people facing debilitating injuries. Each one of us is exposed to this risk as we use the roads every day. One…

During this year’s road safety week the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways floated a draft notification that mandates the installation of six airbags in all passenger cars that have up to 8 seats. The announcement received a mixed response. Some have welcomed the notification, stating that having six mandatory…

Recently, a court in Madhya Pradesh handed out a 190 years imprisonment sentence to a bus driver for causing a road accident. The reason for the long prison term was accounting for the severity of the accident. Here is the accident summary: The bus was going on an undivided road…

Road accidents and deaths in India have been on a steady rise over the past few years. With the increasing number of vehicles on the road, the increase in high-speed expressways, and the general lax outlook towards road safety in our country, the numbers might continue to increase. …

Road accident fatalities in India are increasing every year. Officially, over 1.5 lakh people die every year on our roads. That is over 400 deaths every day! The most vulnerable road user is not a two-wheeler or a car… It is the pedestrian. It is you. It is me. It…

Electric Vehicles or EVs are the next big thing in the automobile industry. With the pollution levels reaching alarming levels, we have finally started to ditch the traditional Internal Combustions Engines (ICE) for vehicles run on Electric Motors. Although this trend started more than a decade earlier, the awareness of…