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School buses aren't yellow by accident: 44 standards came from a seven-day 1939 Columbia conference, and the color stimulates two types of cone cellsA 1939 meeting established the distinctive school bus yellow color for national transportation standards. This specific shade, National Sch...
Right to walk, but where? Supreme Court ruling shines light on Delhi's footpathsDelhi's Supreme Court ruling declares walking on footpaths a fundamental right, yet citizens face daily struggles with damaged, missing, or...
Hit-and-run deaths top 1,000 in Gujarat as road fatalities remain highGujarat's roads are becoming increasingly perilous, with hit-and-run incidents and reckless driving claiming over a thousand lives this yea...
Tesla presented misleading 'Full Self-Driving' safety data to European regulatorsIn a bold move to secure European approval for its Full Self-Driving technology, Tesla has shared crucial safety data with Swedish and Dutc...
Repeat offenders beware: Three or more violations & you could lose your driving license in DelhiDelhi may soon implement stricter traffic regulations, penalizing habitual traffic offenders with license cancellation. Approximately 178,0...
In letter to FM Sitharaman, Delhi LG proposes higher insurance premiums for traffic violations to enhance road safetyDelhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has proposed a road safety plan to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, suggesting higher insuran...
At least 22 dead in Bolivia's worst road accident this yearFourteen of the dead have been identified so far, police said, with Chile's foreign ministry saying at least one of its nationals was among...
Gurgaon commuters beware, traffic police to strictly enforce this commonly ignored ruleBetween January and November of this year, Gurgaon reported 396 fatalities and 800 injuries in 933 accidents. The lack of lane discipline h...
Five months since new Motor Vehicles Act, road accidents come down by 10%Since the passage of the amended Motor Vehicles Act five months ago, the cases of road accidents have reduced by ten percent in India as in...
Roads to be Audited to identify Black Spots, assess cause of accidents: Nitin GadkariRoad accidents in India claimed over 1.5 lakh lives in 2018, a recent report by the transport ministry revealed. India ranks 1st in the num...
Over 38 lakh traffic violation cases booked in last 2 months, Nitin Gadkari informs the ParliamentAs per information available in the database of National Informatics Centre (NIC), 38,39,406 traffic challans in 18 states were issued sinc...
Bengaluru traffic consultancy does copy-paste of 2015 road accident reportA traffic study commissioned by the Bengaluru traffic police on rising road accidents is the exact replica of a 2015 study submitted by the...
Using mobile while driving, worse than drunk-driving.More than 49,385 cases of illegal use of mobile devices by drivers, to talk or text while behind the wheel, have been booked in Hyderabad a...
This couple from Bengaluru fight for safe roads after losing daughter in a crashArundhati was pursuing her PG diploma in clinical pathology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore. She was riding pillion at the time a...
- Surge in road fatalities in India: Experts
'India has over the years emerged as the world's road deaths capital with fatalities skyrocketing by 40 per cent in five years.'
- India leads world in road deaths
In a dubious distinction for the country, the World Health Organization has revealed in its first ever Global Status Report on Road Safety ...
- BMW developing cars that 'sense' danger to pedestrians
BMW is refining a car-to-car communication system that offers more pedestrian protection by "sensing" situations and persons that cannot no...