Road Safety Mechanism to Prevent Overtaking Accidents
Citation
Kartik Venkata Mutya, Sandeep Rudra"Road Safety Mechanism to Prevent Overtaking Accidents", International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), V28(5),219-222 October 2015. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group
Abstract
Road traffic accidents are being
recognized as a major public health problem in
numerous countries with alarmingly increasing
fatalities in developing countries. Careless driving as
a result of excessive waiting and blind corners is
attributed as one of the most important factor for all
road accidents. An estimated 1.2 million people lose
their lives in road traffic crashes every year, and
another 20 to 50 million are injured. A docile,
economical mechanism to prevent these road
accidents is the need of the hour. It is hoped that the
mechanism presented in this article would help in
alleviating this concern especially in correspondence
with large vehicle accidents on highways by being
easily implemented in low and middle income
countries.
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Keywords
Road accidents, Safety, Signaling
Mechanism, Driver Behaviour.