CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Then from 1995 onwards, on the initiative of the Founder of RoadPeace, all other road victim organisations under the umbrella of FEVR agreed to remember road victims in their respective countries on a common day and chose the 3rd Sunday of November as this Day.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Day has become an important tool in global efforts to reduce road casualties. It offers an opportunity for drawing attention to the scale of emotional and economic devastation caused by road crashes and for giving recognition to the suffering of road crash victims and the work of support and rescue services.

Detailed explanation-3: -Accident victims in road traffic are all those injured or killed as a result of accidents in road traffic (including passengers).

Detailed explanation-4: -Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death globally and the principal cause of death in the age group of 15 to 49 years. Every year the lives of approximately 1.3 million people are cut short globally as a result of a road traffic crash.

Detailed explanation-5: -Every year road crashes result in loss of lakhs of lives and serious injuries to crores of people. In India itself about eighty thousand people are killed in road crashes every year which is thirteen percent of the total fatality all over the world. Man behind the wheel plays an important role in most of the crashes.