The Road Transport Ministry is proposing a sharp increase in penalties for traffic violations committed by drivers with children on board. ...

The central government is pushing for enhanced traffic surveillance. States must upgrade cameras to catch more violations. These include no...

The National Highways Authority of India has introduced an upgraded Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) to enhance road safety and en...

An analysis of data from 74 studies in 185 countries estimates that interventions to reduce speeding such as infrastructure changes and ele...

Steps taken for prevention, such as legislations enforcing traffic rules and awareness campaigns, indirectly change human behaviour, but di...

Assam’s transport department has found more than 11,000 cases of riding without a helmet in the month of December. The department stated st...

Almost all enhanced penal provisions for traffic offences in the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act become applicable from September 1.

"So, an offence is recorded as first offence every time and penalty is less. The present law has provision for higher penalty for repeat of...

Delhi, which has the highest number of vehicles as well as road fatalities among cities, has reported less than one fourth of the license s...

In the two-wheeler category, the majority of the dead (71%) were drivers while in the case of cars, passengers accounted for 70% of the fat...

Going by the records, this age group constitutes over one-fourth of total number of persons killed (three lakh) in fatal road crashes.

The road transport ministry will revise the proposed fines for traffic rule violations by almost one-fifth of what was originally envisaged...

To curtail the growing number of road accidents and fatalities in Rajasthan, the state government will provide an assistance of Rs 10,000 t...

Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has already said that a stronger law on the lines of UK will be brought before the parliament.

Seatbelt is the most effective and common safety feature, say experts. “Seatbelts could have done wonders,” said Delhi-based auto-safety ex...

Kerala’s transport commissioner Rishi Raj Singh has made much progress in pulling off what was till recently considered impossible.

There is no evidence to suggest that female skulls are harder than male ones; indeed, both sexes are largely similar in terms of vulnerabil...