BRT has had fewer fatal accidents: ExpertOctober 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The controversial Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in Delhi, which has been blamed for adversely affecting the flow of traffic, is a model road project aimed to bring down road accidents, said an expert on road safety Friday. Dinesh Mohan, coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, said: "As compared to other roads, there are fewer accident deaths on the BRT corridor because it offers the pedestrians a marked path to walk on.
India to use Facebook, Twitter to reduce fatal accidentsSeptember 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and International Road Federation (IRF) are planning to use social networking websites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to help reduce fatal accidents by 50 percent in the next three years, officials said Monday. For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools including advertising, billboards, posters, modern web based social networking tools that include Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube will be used to spread knowledge of road safety, K.K.
India to use Facebook, Twitter to reduce road accidentsSeptember 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be made use of by the Indian government to spread the message of safe driving, transport officials said Monday. "For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools including advertising, billboards and posters, modern web based social networking tools that include Facebook, blogs, Twitter and YouTube will be used to spread knowledge of road safety," K.K.
Nearly 500 killed in Indonesia Eid travel accidentsSeptember 25th, 2009 JAKARTA - More than 470 people have been killed in road accidents as millions of Indonesian revellers returned to major cities after celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr in their home towns, media reports said Friday. A family of six was killed in a collision in East Java province Thursday when a minivan hit an intercity bus, bringing the number of people killed in road accidents in the past two days to more than 100, the newspaper Kompas reported.
13 killed in Bangladesh bus crashAugust 14th, 2009 DHAKA - A speeding bus hit a tree and crashed into a canal in Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people and injuring 10, reports said here today. The accident occurred in Feni, a town 80 miles east of Dhaka, United News of Bangladesh said.
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