Don Bosco Tech-Ashalaya (Bangalore) has conducted an awareness program about Road safety on Jan27, 2020. All the trainers along with the trainees participated in the program. The right to life and safety is a fundamental right of any citizen. This is guaranteed under the constitutions of every country in the world including India. Anything, which is hazardous to humans, violates the right to life, and road safety is as much on the agenda as any other area, which may be accident-prone.

Many people die every year from road accidents all over the world than the number killed during the whole of the Second World War. Studies by World Bank have estimated that about 5, 00,000 people lose their lives each year as a result of road accidents and over 15 million suffer injuries. About 70% of these occur in developing countries particularly African and Asian countries constitute one percent of annual Gross National Product resources, which they cannot afford . A look at some of the statistics on road safety presents a very grim picture worldwide and especially in developing countries like India. Road fatalities now lead to the list of accidental deaths in India much more than any other accidental deaths such as drowning, fire, rail, air mishaps, etc. The magnitude of road accidents in India is increasing at an alarming rate.

Above 60,000 people are killed every year and tops the world in the number of road fatalities. The national level of fatalities/Km is 0.025. The road accidents were highest on National and State Highways i.e. 45% rather than rural roads (39%). Mostly heavy vehicles like buses and trucks are responsible for causing road accidents (43%). It has been estimated that 6 million more will die and 60 million will be injured during the next 10 years in developing countries unless action is taken of which nearly 30% of the figures are attributed to India. The majority of road crash victims (injuries and fatalities) in developing countries are not motorized vehicle occupants, but pedestrians, motorcyclists, bicyclists, etc. Sixty percent of deaths involve pedestrians and 35 percent of pedestrian deaths are children. Road fatalities are due to several reasons, primary among them are faulty road and traffic policies, poor implementation of various laws governing road safety issues, and last but not the least, the faulty engineering of road mechanics, may it be road design or traffic lighting, etc.