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Indian Roads Most Unsafe, Says WHO Report
The stats published in the report reveals that less than 50 percent of two wheeler riders and less than 10 percent of pillion riders wear helmets, while only 27 percent of car drivers wear seat belts. The report also reveals the poor state of emergency response rate and lack of emergency services. Only about 11 to 49 percent of injured victims get taken to hospitals by ambulances. Alarmingly, while 88 countries have improved their road safety records between 2008 and 2011, India has actually worsened.
With 1.43 lakh recorded deaths in 2011 India has highest number of fatalities in the world, followed by China, with 70,134 and Brazil, with 36,499 deaths. Average global road traffic deaths every year stands at 1.24 million, according to the report.
Furthermore, only 28 countries, with a total population of 449 million or 7 percent of the world's population maintain adequate safety laws and once again India comes at the bottom of the list, scoring the lowest in all five risk factors, namely speed, driving under influence, helmets, seatbelts and child restraints.
The two main reasons for India's poor road safety records is non-compliance of rules and non implementation of laws, which suffers due to several factors, including limited number of law enforcing personnel and negligence.
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