Lanka: A 17-year-old boy received severe injuries after being hit by a speedy car near National Highway 54 in Lanka under Hojai District on Wednesday.
The injured boy was identified as Dhiraj Das (17) alias Rohan, a resident of Lankapatty area in Lanka..
The injured boy later succumbed to his injuries at Haji Abdul Majid Memorial Hospitals and Research Centre (HAMM) in Hojai.
It may also be mentioned that the number of road accidents is rising day by day. Every day more than 80% of people are getting injured in India. It is a major problem in India. It is observed that most of the accidents occur among teenagers. Though the government has set many rules regarding road safety, yet most of them are of no use. The reasons behind all such accidents are many and varying.
Most of the teenagers get driving licences through fraudulent means – by producing false documents and making undue payments to government officials, especially of the transport department.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also trying to make our country a bit progressive in every sector through different projects like ‘Making India, Digital India’. However, it is of no use when many youths, as well as senior citizens, don’t give importance to it.
It may further be mentioned that the traffic Collisions in India are a major source of deaths, injuries and property damage every year. As per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2016 report states there were 496,762 roads, railways and railway crossing-related traffic collisions in 2015. Of these, road collisions accounted for 464,674 collisions which caused 148,707 traffic-related deaths in India. The three highest total numbers of fatalities were reported in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and together they accounted for about 33% of total Indian traffic fatalities in 2015. Adjusted for 182.45 million vehicles[note 2] and its 1.31 billion population, India reported a traffic collision rate of about 0.8 per 1000 vehicles in 2015 compared to 0.9 per 1000 vehicles in 2012, and an 11.35 fatality rate per 100,000 people in 2015. According to Gururaj, the top three highest traffic fatality rates per 100,000 people in 2005 were reported by Tamil Nadu, Goa and Haryana, with a male: female fatality ratio of about 5:1.
The reported total fatality, rates per 100,000 people and the regional variation of traffic collisions per 100,000 people varies by source. For example, Rahul Goel in 2018 reports an India-wide average fatality rate of 11.6 per 100,000 people and Goa to be the state with the highest fatality rate.
According to the 2013 global survey of traffic collisions by the UN World Health Organization, India suffered a road fatality rate of 16.6 per 100,000 people in 2013. India’s average traffic collision fatality rate was similar to the world average rate of 17.4 deaths per 100,000 people, less than the low-income countries which averaged 24.1 deaths per 100,000, and higher than the high-income countries which reported the lowest average rate of 9.2 deaths per 100,000 in 2013.
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