write an article on better late than never(road safety)
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1,50,785 is a big number. That is the number of people who have died in road accidents in 2016, according to an official report released by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, India. That equates to about 411 people dying every day or 17 people dying every hour!
The same report also states that 4,94,624 people were seriously injured, bringing the total number of people immediately affected by these accidents to 6,45,409. A staggering 4,80,652 road accidents were recorded in the country in 2016. For various reasons, these numbers have never created a lasting impact on most people - the seriousness of the situation cannot be expressed just in numbers.
The Government has announced plans to introduce mandatory safety norms for cars by July 2019. This will require car manufacturers to install airbags (the number has not been specified), seatbelt reminders (again, it has not been been specified for how many), and a speeding warning system, reverse parking sensor and a manual override for central locking systems.
These safety measures are almost more than a year away from being implemented and many manufacturers are in no hurry to offer them on their products. Why? Adding these safety features would increase the prices of these cars and bikes, and at least in the short term it doesn’t make sense. People are still not very particular about safety equipment, this could be because of ignorance or a misplaced belief in their luck - and manufacturers would rather price their products cheaper than risk losing customers, even if it compromises safety