Status of Road Safety in India:

♤ India accounts for 10 per cent of the global road crash fatalities when it has around 1 percent of global automobile share

♤ Every four minutes a life is lost in a road accident in India with 1,40,000 deaths recorded in 2012 alone.

♤ In the past decade, over a million people have lost their lives in road accidents in the country and over 5 million have been left seriously injured or permanently disabled