{"id":51347,"date":"2014-06-06T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=51347"},"modified":"2014-06-06T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T09:22:32","slug":"0-14-million-people-die-in-road-mishaps-in-india-ever-year-51347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/0-14-million-people-die-in-road-mishaps-in-india-ever-year-51347\/","title":{"rendered":"0.14 million people die in road mishaps in India ever year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51350\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51350\" alt=\"A bus damaged in accident in India. File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Accident-India-Nationalturk-6.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bus damaged in accident in India. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>An Indian minister has revealed that 0.14 million people die in road accidents in India every year.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, June 6\/Nationalturk \u2013 At least 0.14 million people die in road accidents in India every year, India\u2019s minister has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 0.50 million road accidents take place in India every year. In these accidents, about 0.14 million people are killed and about 0.50 million people injured,\u201d India\u2019s Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari has said.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing concern over such large number of accidents and road deaths in the country, he asked officials to visit all the accident prone sites to improve the provisions for road safety at such spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry is also considering to bring down the road traffic by developing inland waterways and by promoting coastal shipping,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>India mulling new law to control road accidents<\/h2>\n<p>Gadkari said a new law is proposed to be prepared in about a month\u2019s time incorporating various rules and laws to minimize road accidents and ensure safety of commuters and travellers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new legislation will take into consideration the latest international standards after a study by the officials, who have been asked to undertake a study on the issue on a war-footing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asserting that said no one should be spared for violation of traffic rules whatever their status or rank in the society is, Gadkari said, \u201cA system should be developed to confiscate the driving licenses of violators of road safety rules and it should be made difficult for them to obtain a driving license again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said an element of fear has also to be brought to stop traffic rules violations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian minister has revealed that 0.14 million people die in road accidents in India every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,117,14],"tags":[70213,46728,2546,62534,41533,58575,65348,70210,70211,70212],"class_list":["post-51347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-travel","category-world","tag-coastal-shipping","tag-deaths","tag-india","tag-indian-minister","tag-injuries","tag-nitin-gadkari","tag-road-accidents","tag-road-deaths","tag-road-safety","tag-road-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}