It is not the killer roads alone where road safety is compromised, Even global giant automakers, who have set up large car manufacturing plants in India, continue to sell vehicles that hardly meet global standards regarding inbuilt safety features. These features are provided as optional so that the price of the vehicle can be reduced and used to lure customers. Unfortunately, even the customers don't give a thought to safety.
Deadly road accidents have become common on Indian roads which are often caused by poor road infrastructure, aging vehicles, lax process followed in issuing driving licences, over-loading, reckless and drunken driving, and the use of mobile phones while driving. Such is the case that we find even two-wheeler drivers talking on the mobile while driving. lack of measures to strictly enforce road safety rules has made our country home to 10 to 15 per cent of road accidents worldwide, even though India has only one per cent of the global vehicle population.