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  On July 10, in Uttar Pradesh , a private double-decker bus collided with a milk tanker, killing 18 people.  Local reports claimed the bus’...

 

  • On July 10, in Uttar Pradesh, a private double-decker bus collided with a milk tanker, killing 18 people. 

  • Local reports claimed the bus’s insurance had not been renewed and that it lacked an alarm system to alert the driver if the bus drifted from its lane, among other issues. 

  • Should the State government’s inquiry bear these details out, they will highlight the importance of the multidimensional nature of road safety, which banks on road and highway design, presence of roadside businesses, speed and access control, and visibility, among other factors, to protect lives. 

  • The details should also highlight the reluctance of municipal authorities and local bodies to scrutinise public and licensed private infrastructure until lives are lost. 

  • According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 1.71 lakh people died and 4.23 lakh were injured in 4.46 lakh road accidents in 2022

  • Speed control is particularly important: it is implicated in most deadly road accidents in the country. 

  • Public officials know how to control speed in urban and rural areas — with strategically placed speed-breakers and roundabouts and increased police monitoring, for example

  • Similarly, it should be clear which portions of the Automotive Industry Standards that the bus’s condition at the time of the accident violated


Ways forward

  • First, local authorities must enforce existing standards and have skilled personnel and proper equipment for this purpose. 

  • They must also be allowed to impose harsher penalties on transport service operators who fail to meet safety requirements. 

  • Municipal bodies must also be prevented from diluting standards painstakingly specified by engineers in order to, say, facilitate local businesses. 

  • Second, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways needs to collect and publish better, ideally complete, data on vehicle registrations, safety certificates, testing centres, criteria, and reports and audits. 

  • It also needs to improve the quality of data about injuries and deaths, both of which remain undercounted. 

  • Finally, there is a need for greater public awareness of how the health of transport vehicles is ascertained and for access to each vehicle’s latest test report. 

  • This may be a bridge too far given both the generally complacent attitude towards quality control and unscrupulous operators’ ability to escape sanction — but it remains the bridge that will have to be crossed.

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