write a newspaper report on a road accident in which 5engineering student were killed include the following in your report. the place where the accident particular of the ,vitims -other details
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Road Accidents Coverage in Leading Hindi Dailies in Haryana
Dr. Ajay Kumar1
, Dr. Roshan Lal1
1Assistant Professor, IMC &MT, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
Abstract
The present study lays focus on the accident covered news in leading Hindi
national dailies in Haryana. The main objective of the study is to determine the
space generally given to accident news in newspapers and to know the formats
being used to disseminate the news pertaining to road accidents. Another
important objective of the study is to ascertain whether reporters try to
highlight causes of accidents while writing such news stories to generate
awareness among the people against such delinquencies are also dissected and
dwelt upon at length. To conduct this study the researchers carried out a
content analysis of two leading Hindi dailies-Dainik Bhaskar and Dainik
Jagran. The research reveals that both the Dainik Jagran and the Dainik
Bhaskar newspapers give inadequate coverage to the news of the accident.
Keywords: Accident news, Road Crashes, Accidental information.
Introduction
In India, road accidents cause umpteen numbers of fatalities, cutting short the life of people
in general and the youth in particular. The number of fatal accidents and road fatalities has
spurted rapidly the number over the years. Approximately 400 people lose their precious lives
every day in road accidents in India, which is a staggering number showcasing the enormity
of the problem (Pal Ranbir, 2019).
The United Nations is also seized by the gravity of the problem that is why it has declared the
years 2011 to 2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety. The objective of declaring a
decade long action plan is to generate awareness among the people about observing traffic
rules scrupulously to minimize the incidence of road fatalities since some time road accidents
are so ghastly and gruesome that many people are horribly disabled and die in the very heartwrenching way (United Nations, 2011).