Road accidents
The man made disasters
Author : Shaheriar B. Zaveri. Asst. RTO (Retd)
Co-Author: Kishor D. Joshi. Asst. D of T (Retd)
Road Safety Automotive Management,
Ahmedabad - 380052, Gujarat, India.
Tele:-(R)-079 27475751 (M)-09427475795
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/roadsafetyam
Road safety Automotive Management
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Incorrect use of safety device
Wrong Driving Habits on Indian Roads
• Several Wrong Driving Habits have developed
– Unknowingly or Knowingly
– Misunderstood or Totally ignorant
• The absolute lack of awareness of the risks
associated with their particular (wrong habits)
driving habits
• These wrong habits seem to be the major cause of
road accidents
• Hence, we call them as “man made disasters”.
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Wrong Driving Habits –
Incorrect use of safety device
• Safety device - “Emergency/Hazard Warning
Switch”
– Under the provision of Rule 103 (2) (CMVR) 1989, four
wheelers are equipped with a safety device called
“emergency/hazard warning switch”
– Uneducated drivers do not know the actual purpose of
this device and misuse this device while overtaking
• Conclusion
– An abuse of an important safety device
– Causes serious confusion to other road users
Wrong Driving Habits Lack of Understanding of Road Markings
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Lack of Understanding of Road
Markings
Lifeline of driver
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No Stopping
Wrong Driving Habits Lack of Understanding of Road Markings
• The Rules of the Road Regulation 1989 does not allow
vehicles, proceeding in the same direction trying to
overtake each other to cross the yellow-line
– It has been continuously ignored and violated by most road users,
and has become the most prominent cause of head on collisions
while overtaking
• When the roads are marked with lane lines
– Drivers do not know to drive on driving lane (left)
– Right side lane is only for overtaking
– As soon as overtaking is over, come to left lane again
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Wrong Driving Habits –
Deliberate use of manual overtaking
signal to harm others
Deliberate use of manual overtaking
signal to harm others
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When the driver of a vehicle wishes to allow the driver of the
vehicle behind him to overtake
– The driver has to extend his arm and hand outside the vehicle and
to swing backward and forward in a semi circular motion
– This is the only prescribed process in the Rule of the road
Regulation
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But some times driver mischievously and/or deliberately gives
a manual signal even when he knows that it is not safe for the
vehicle behind him to overtake
– Police vehicles are generally the victim of such deliberate mischief
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Conclusion
– Is there any alternate to such manual signal?
– What is the reliability of manual signal given by the driver?
Manual overtaking signal
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Confusion Due to Misuse of
Side Indicators
Allow Overtaking
Intend to turn right
Confusion Due to Misuse of
Side Indicators
Allow Overtaking
Intend to turn right
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Wide-angle turns for articulated
trailers and truck-trailer vehicles
Wrong Driving Habits –
Confusion Due to Misuse of Side
Indicators
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The Rules of the Road Regulation 1989 Rule 13 (e) prescribes
manual method of giving signal by right arm and hand in case
of overtaking
Nowadays one innovative idea of using the flashing right side
indicator (turn signal switch) has been adopted for giving
indication to the following vehicle to overtake (allow)
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– This is very confusing
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There are no separate rules or regulations in M V Act or CMVR for
Articulated trailer or tractor/trailers
– Especially for when such lengthy vehicles move on road and when they
negotiate turns
Right side indicator could also mean that
– the driver of the vehicle intends to turn to right.
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Conclusion
– There should be only one meaning for the side indicator
• The intention to turn right or left
– There is no provision in the M V Act 1988 to prohibit the misuse of
the direction indicator.
Problems for articulated trailers during turning
– When articulated vehicle negotiates a turn, the puller (Horse) easily moves
ahead but the trailing portion of the unite does not move on the same track
as that taken by the puller, but the trailer moves on different track or profile
which has a larger radius creating a hazardous situation on road
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Wide-angle turns for articulated
trailers and truck-trailer vehicles
Wide-angle turns for articulated
trailers and truck-trailer vehicles
• Right Turn
• Left Turn
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Wide-angle turns for articulated
trailers and truck-trailer vehicles
Incorrect Method of Slowing
Down/Stopping the Vehicle
Generally drivers of heavy vehicles are
habituated to slow down by shifting to lower
gears
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• Developed countries use signs
on the back of the tractor/trailer
– Engine brake is technically good
– But it can also cause dangerous situations
Example
– Recently one mishap took place
Ahmedabad-Baroda express highway
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• Conclusion
– New rules should be added to the
CMVR to exemplify the special
considerations
needed
by
articulated trailers for making
wide-angle turns
– This will help increase the
awareness in other road users
about such maneuvers
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– The bus driver instead of applying the brakes,
he slowed down only by changing to lower gear
– This action of driver could not be judged by the
truck coming from behind with a very high
speed
– The truck driver could not make out that the bus
ahead was slowing down
– This resulted in an accident, the bus was thrown
in the road side ditch
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Incorrect Method of Slowing
Down/Stopping the Vehicle
Diseases & Medicines – How it
Adversely Affects Driving?
We assumed that majority of accidents occur due to the wrong
actions/decisions of drivers
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• Many
developed
countries
have
prohibited “unmuffled engine braking”
in most cases, and is only allowed in
emergency situations
– However, a person driving a vehicle is not a mechanical robot
– He is a living being, and is prone to be affected by any disease while
driving
• Driving is a complex process
involving coordinated working
of the driver’s mind, eyes, ears,
arms and legs, etc
• Conclusion
– Provisions should be made in the Rules of
the Road Regulation 1989 to
make it
compulsory to apply brakes (brake lights)
when slowing down or stopping with
Conclusion
– engine brake
– this will avoid mishap
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The driver could be suffering from
any disease
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Under these circumstances
– Such diseases or its symptoms could hinder his driving abilities
– An unpredicted mishap becomes intense
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Diseases & Medicines – How it
Adversely Affects Driving?
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In the old Motor Vehicles Act 1939, disease and disabilities
specified in the Second Schedule, prohibited and
disqualified a person from obtaining a driving license
• But in the new Motor Vehicles Act 1988, there is
no such schedule or notification
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Diseases & Medicines – How it
Adversely Affects Driving?
Diseases & Medicines – How it
Adversely Affects Driving?
• Medicines and Driving
• Diseases and its significant effect
– Heart disease
• Medicine itself becomes a hindrance for driving
• It makes driving difficult and unsafe
• The common man in India is ignorant of this fact
– Diabetes
– Alzheimer’s disease
– These medicines are used extensively in common
ailments, like cold, cough, anxiety, allergies,
headache , hay fever, flu, insomnia etc
– Parkinson’s
– Night blindness (Nyctalopia)
• The side effects are drowsiness, lack of concentration,
dizziness, lightheadedness or fainting, unable to think
clearly, have blurred or double vision, etc.
– Epilepsy
– Common man is totally ignorant of the facts.
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Warning on Medicine wrapper in developed countries
Warning on Medicine wrapper in developed countries
Diseases & Medicines – How it
Adversely Affects Driving?
Diseases & Medicines – How it
Adversely Affects Driving?
• Medicines and Driving
• Medicines and Driving
– Under the prevailing laws in our country,
the Government has not made any
mandatory provision to convey messages
of warning against the driving of a vehicle
after consumption of certain prescribed
medicines
– The combined effect of consuming
drugs/medicines and alcohol poses a
potential hazard in driving
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– In our country there is not any statutory
provision anywhere to display written
caution on medicine wrappers/boxes,
regarding the consumption and hazards
of the particular medicine, and combining
medicine and alcohol, and how this may
adversely affect driving abilities.
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Are Blind People Safe on Indian
Roads?
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Warning on Medicine wrapper in developed countries
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Medicines and Driving
– Conclusion
• Unfortunatly no provision is made in the Motor Vehicles Act 1988,
regarding caution, or prohibition on consumption of certain
medicines while driving
• Mandatory provision is required to be introduced in the Motor
Vehicles Act 1988, or the CMVR 1989 that, a person taking
perticular medicine should drive a vehicle if advised by a doctor
There are around 15 million people in India who
suffer form blindness
Blind people are generally recognized by the “white
cane” or “red/white striped stick”
– It is used as a symbol to alert others to the fact that
an individual is blind person
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Majority of the drivers in India are illiterate, and do
not know the significance of the “white cane” (a
symbol for blind people)
There is no provision of cuntionary sign in the M V
Act1988, for safety of blind people on Indian roads
The developed countries use several road signs for
the safety of blind people
Conclusion
– A symbol for blind people safety on the road.
– The road signs should be included in our Motor
Vehicle Act 1988.
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Road accidents
The man made disasters
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Road safety Automotive Management
Author : Shaheriar B. Zaveri. Asst. RTO (Retd)
Co-Author: Kishor D. Joshi. Asst. D of T (Retd)
Road Safety Automotive Management,
Ahmedabad - 380052, Gujarat, India.
Tele:-(R)-079 27475751 (M)-09427475795
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/roadsafetyam
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Road safety Automotive Management
Author : Shaheriar B. Zaveri. Asst. RTO (Retd)
Co-Author: Kishor D. Joshi. Asst. D of T (Retd)
Road Safety Automotive Management,
Ahmedabad - 380052, Gujarat, India.
Tele:-(R)-079 27475751 (M)-09427475795
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/roadsafetyam
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