Accidents & Reasons

     On daily basis newspapers contains lot of news of Accidents which are enough to horrify common people and lack of exact information relating to accidents always majority of people blame traffic systems in the country, they not consider other aspects of accidents like condition of vehicle, human fault or other reason, but data available to Road Transport and Highway ministry come up with conclusion that more then seventy five percent accidents occurred because of human fault especially of drivers which are directly responsible, and it can be further classified into different categories like –

• Fast Driving
• Tension or Stress
• Not Proper rest
• Age Factor
• Take Overs
• Not following Traffic Signals / Rules
• Not fully focus on to Road Traffic or busy in talking with others or using mobile
• Drugs
• Work overload

but there is no doubt all the above coded reasons points towards Drivers mistake or human error, data prepared of year 2008 Road accidents happened in the country and people lost there lives are –

• Reason  - Percentage
• Driver mistake - 74.6 %
• Fault in Vehicle - 2.3 %
• Mistake of lane crosser- 1.9 %
• Faulty Roads- 1.8 %
• Mistake by cycle -1.5 %
• Weather disturbances-1.2 %
• Other reasons -16.9 %
• Fast driving -5.924 %
• Driving after intake of intoxication- 7.648 %

above coded details points towards mistake of drivers in the road accidents up to three fourth, and one can going through the stat’s without any confusion can points fingers towards major elements of accidents are human error. In the year of 2008 total 89,360 people lost their lives because of road accidents in the country and if anybody has to blame for three fourth accidents of year 2008 then it have to be blame drivers. United Nations raises its concern on to the increasing number of road accidents especially in the developing nations and asked countries to collect data of road accidents, so that United Nations can work on to the project named “Asia Pacific Road Accidents”, and with the help of data, road accidents can be reduce to minimal level. Report which was prepared by Road Transport and Highway Ministry comes to the conclusion after study of road accidents that it’s the drivers which are responsible of three fourth accidents.
    Hopefully with the initiative of United Nations project it will help developing nations to reduce the accidents numbers in their countries, and drivers should also work with responsibilities when they drive the vehicles like avoid extra burden / stress, drugs, avoid to use mobile when they drive and not drive at the speed which make situation worse and turn into accidents and death of score of people.