Auto companies Bosch India and Wabco India are organising a symposium on safety drive.
The two-day event had begun at Wabco’s test track in Chennai yesterday.
According to the United Nations, 1.3 million people globally die in traffic accidents each year, and 50 million are injured. In ten years, the number of annual road deaths could rise to 1.9 million. This is driven mainly by the rapid growth in road traffic in the emerging countries.
According to the latest Road Transport Ministry report in India, in 2011 there was one road accident every minute, which claimed one life every 3.7 minutes. This is perhaps the highest road fatality rate in the world.
Keeping in view the urgency to address this problem, Bosch and Wabco are organising the symposium to serve as a platform for industry bodies, OEMs and other stakeholders to examine and deliberate on the present state of vehicle safety in India.
It aims at highlighting the available technologies and solutions to improve vehicle and road safety in India.
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