Mumbai: Teertha Patel will be 12 months old.
Days in running their birthdays are always spent by a family together.
But this year, his father, Nitin, spent time conducting a round of police station instead.
Nitin was in a feeling to get justice for his daughter who was killed in a road accident in February 1.
The duo of the daughters had stepped out to feed birds in Kandivalali Timur when a motorcycle rider who drove crashed into them.
Like Tehertha, a 21-year-old Mhashelkar dikshant is also a victim of speeding.
An employee of a five-star hotel and the only member of his family’s income, Dikshant drove home from work when a truck hit his motorcycle at Goregaon East on April 15.
The truck driver then admitted to the Mhashelkar family that he was unable to control the speed of his vehicle on time.
Seven months since the accident, the driver of the truck was released on a guarantee but Mhashelkar was still struggling to make peace with their loss.
On the anniversary of the world for road traffic victims observed on November 21, the two families wanted the authorities to promote the actions to curb speeding and finally stopped death in traffic.
“Redesigning the road to prioritize vulnerable road users and lower speeds is the most effective tool to reduce traffic deaths on our roads,” said Abhimanyu Prakash, a senior program manager with the National Association of National Transportation Officers (Nacto) based In the US, a Bloomberg philanthropic initiative partner for global road safety.
Globally, cities subdue their urban speed limit through a combination of policy framework, law enforcement, design and street communication.
“There is a lot of data that represents their success in reducing traffic accidents.
Street design and infrastructure change acts as a tool that enforces, reduces space for errors and creates space to manage crashes that might occur because of human mistakes,” Prakash said.
Reports released by 2020 by the International Road Assessment Programes (IRAP), a Registered Charity Agency, shows that 819 lives are lost in India per day and financial costs for health, economic and family systems can reach up to 101 million USD every day.
The report also shows that at 96% of Indian roads, which are used by pedestrians and where traffic flows at 40kmph or more, there is no formal path.
“We have campaigned for a larger focus on the prevention of injuries and disabilities caused by street crashes.
If a stretcher (ideal device to bring victims with the possibility of spinal cord injury) can be placed at the location of the crash-rentile and basic training given to citizens .
How to bring victims of accidents correctly and move them to the hospital in gold hours, we can prevent permanent disability, “said Dr.
Ketna Mehta, the non-profit group, the Nina Foundation, worked for individuals with spinal injury.
Mehta added that the majority of non-profit people helped rehabilitate for years, have suffered spinal injuries as a result of road accidents.
The annual fee of fatality and serious injury is 5.6 percent of Indian GDP, according to IRAP reports.
By investing 0.26% of GDP every year from 2020 to 2030, fatalities and serious injuries can be reduced, the report shows.
For some people who survived the crash, past their daily routine has become a climbing task.
Rahil Shaikh, who was given Paraplegic after a vehicle collision in 2005, had to get out of college and could hardly find employment opportunities afterwards.
Shaikh, 38, is bound by a wheelchair and does not explore from his house in Dockyard Road itself as “Mumbai Street which cannot be accessed universally harmful to disabled people.” For the same reason, he cannot take a train or bus, which greatly limits his choice.
“One of the aim of the world warnings for road traffic victims is also to advocate for better support for traffic accident survivors.
Loss control over the body’s function among individuals with spinal bonial injuries can also have an impact on their mental health,” added Dr.
Mehta .