Pragmatic ways to prevent road crashes
Pragmatic ways to prevent road crashes
M S Siddiqui
Legal Economist and pursuing PhD in Open University, Malaysia e-mail: shah@banglachemical.com
The global policy is prevention of road crashes, not the punishment of drivers, one of the road users. Our problem lies with the failure to implement the laws. This is an inefficiency of the management writes M S Siddiqui
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2014/01/05/12204
Driving may be the most dangerous activity with which we are involved. Government estimated the death of 4,000 people and injury of 5000 per annum but according to study of WHO in 2009 the yearly death is more than 20,000. Worldwide, the number of people killed in road traffic accident each year is estimated at almost 1.2 million, while the number injured could be as high as 50 million.
Road traffic injuries constitute a major public health and development crisis, and are predicted to increase manifold gradually. With the number of vehicles rapidly rising in developing countries, road accident is quickly worsening in low and middle-income countries and is on its way to becoming the third leading cause of death and disabilities as epidemic by the year 2020 (WHO 2000) after two deadly diseases Ischaemic heart disease and Unipolar major depression. The total number of road traffic deaths worldwide and injuries is forecast to rise by some 65% between 2000 and 2020, and in least developed and developing countries deaths are expected to increase by as much as 80%.
Another statistics revealed that Bangladesh has one of the highest fatality rates internationally in road accidents, over 100 deaths per 10,000 motor vehicles.
Some US government departments campaign in 1997, encouraging the removal of the word
“accident” from the traffic management vocabulary and suggested replacing it with the word
“crash.” Because “Motor vehicle crashes and injuries are predictable, preventable events. Continued use of the word “accident”
M S Siddiqui
Legal Economist and pursuing PhD in Open University, Malaysia e-mail: shah@banglachemical.com
The global policy is prevention of road crashes, not the punishment of drivers, one of the road users. Our problem lies with the failure to implement the laws. This is an inefficiency of the management writes M S Siddiqui
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2014/01/05/12204
Driving may be the most dangerous activity with which we are involved. Government estimated the death of 4,000 people and injury of 5000 per annum but according to study of WHO in 2009 the yearly death is more than 20,000. Worldwide, the number of people killed in road traffic accident each year is estimated at almost 1.2 million, while the number injured could be as high as 50 million.
Road traffic injuries constitute a major public health and development crisis, and are predicted to increase manifold gradually. With the number of vehicles rapidly rising in developing countries, road accident is quickly worsening in low and middle-income countries and is on its way to becoming the third leading cause of death and disabilities as epidemic by the year 2020 (WHO 2000) after two deadly diseases Ischaemic heart disease and Unipolar major depression. The total number of road traffic deaths worldwide and injuries is forecast to rise by some 65% between 2000 and 2020, and in least developed and developing countries deaths are expected to increase by as much as 80%.
Another statistics revealed that Bangladesh has one of the highest fatality rates internationally in road accidents, over 100 deaths per 10,000 motor vehicles.
Some US government departments campaign in 1997, encouraging the removal of the word
“accident” from the traffic management vocabulary and suggested replacing it with the word
“crash.” Because “Motor vehicle crashes and injuries are predictable, preventable events. Continued use of the word “accident”