Road accidents

Statistics on accidents may help planners and designers to some extent to identify unsafe conditions like road condition,  blind curves, unmarked speed brakers, and black spots and take action. 

However,  it will be difficult to find exact reason when it comes to unsafe acts. We can generalise the unsafe acts like overspeed, overtaking on wrong side, intoxication, road crossing wherever there is a gap or even when green signal is for vehicles, not wearing helmet or seat belt, not switching head lamps or having head lamps with glare blinding opposite side drivers, parking of vehicles at wrong places, etc.

In my experience,  road crossing by pedestrians in unsafe manner is the most dangerous activity leading to accidents. Next is unsafe parking of vehicles on the roads and encroachment of roads by, building owners with ramps or gardens or keeping useless materials. Another reason is street hawkers.

Many building owners don't keep parking areas in their premises, let it me residential or commercial space. For maximum rent collection, rooms are made. And, obviously,  vehicles will be parked on the roads restricting available road space. 

I strongly believe in strict action by removal and auction of such vehicles. This enforcement action will help traffic department to generate revenue while bringing discipline. Also, restrictions on sale and registering of vehicles to such violators for an year should be imposed incapacitating their usage.

For helmet or seatbelt violators,  licence shall be canceled for an year and vehicle shall be impounded. 

For road crossing in dangerous manner,  such persons where identified shall be transported to city outskirts making them to repent for the time lost.