Question

Essay on road safety in 200 words

Answer 1

ROAD SAFETY PARAGRAPH 3 (200 WORDS)

Road safety refers to the methods used to prevent the road crashes and protect the road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, bikers and other vehicle passengers and drivers from getting injured or killed on the road. The key goal of road safety measures is to minimize the impact speed that affects the severity of the accident. It is estimated that around 1 million people die each year in road accidents.

The issue is more critical in developing nations. Serious injuries are caused due to severe speeding up. The speed of the vehicle should be limited as to ease the impact speed that can cause severe injuries to the victims on both the sides. The other factors that can cause accidents are driver’s illness or fatigue, drink and drive, vehicle break fails or steering failure and poor roadside zones to name a few.

Safety can be improved by responsible driving and following traffic rules or by designing the vehicles in a way to decrease the intensity of the crash. Traffic calming measures are used to improve the road safety. The modern paradigm of road safety replaces the killed or seriously injured (KSI) rates with the accident rates i.e. accidents per million vehicle miles. With improvement in the road constructions there are several safety related methods and systems designed to improve the road safety.

Answer 2

As we all know that road accidents, injuries and deaths have become very common in today's days. The main reason for such accidents on the road is the ignore of road traffic rules and road safety measures by the people. Regarding road accidents, we always hear in the news or by our friends, due to driving in the wrong direction, lack of road safety rules and measures, fast speed, drunk driving etc. To reduce the number of everyday road accidents, the government has set up various types of road traffic and road safety rules for all those who use road to protect them. We must obey all those rules and controllers such as the use of protective movement, use of safeguards, keeping the speed limit correct, understanding the road marks etc.

Due to the use of cell phones or other electronic equipment during the drive, the danger of road accidents has increased due to the driver's distraction. In such cases, traffic rules and laws help you to avoid road accidents and injuries. Road safety measures are weapons that can save you from expensive traffic jurisdictions, serious crimes, removal of driving licenses etc. Pedestrians also know the rules for walking on the road such as proper use of the crosswalk, the use of the zebra crossing etc.