The IndiaRAP safety assessment data provides an insight into why road trauma remains one of the leading public health challenges. These risk factors play a significant role in the Star Rating results and provide a basis for planning life-saving treatments. Data produced from IndiaRAP assessment of 21,000km road network show that the India’s roads contain high-risk design flaws that contribute to the high numbers of deaths and serious injuries across all states. Over 80,000 deaths and severe injuries occur each year on this network and there is potential to halve this by implementing identified safety treatments.
Star Ratings by road user type based on 21,000km roads assessed in India,
More information available on ‘Vaccines for Roads’
iRAP’s Big Data Tool, vaccinesforroads.org, shines a light on the true human impact of road trauma with estimates of the actual injury types and real victim impact stories. The resource unlocks the potential of the world’s largest road infrastructure safety database to explore how safe the world’s roads are and provide the Business Case for 3-star or better roads for all road users worldwide. This tool enables user to select a single or multiple countries to see the results of assessment.
“Every day in India
819 lives are lost
8,190 people get hurt with serious injuries, and
13,923 people get other injuries in
road crashes“
Safety Treatments to Save Lives
The Safer Roads Investment Plans prepared for 21,000km road network recommend life saving treatments to be implemented such as, provision of additional traffic lane; provision of roadside and median crash barrier to manage roadside hazards; improvement of intersection geometry and quality to reduce intersection crashes among vehicles and pedestrian, provision of facilities for pedestrian such as footpath and safe crossing facility; improving road markings and signage, and provision of traffic calming measures.
Implementing economically viable safety treatments identified under SRIP would prevent over 56,000 fatalities and serious injuries each year. Investing a rupee towards construction of such safety treatments would result into benefit of three rupees (BCR of 3). This will also help us to achieve UN Target-3 of >75% of travel on 3-star or better roads.
“Implementing the identified safety treatments over 21,000km road network would help to achieve UN Target-3 of >75% of travel on
3-star or better roads for all road users and
prevent over 56,000 fatalities and serious injuries each year.”
Business Case for Safer Roads in India
The Business Case for Safer Roads in India provides a high-level global estimate of the lives and serious injuries that can be saved, and the social and economic benefits of maximising the percentage of travel on 3 star or better roads by 2030. This simple analysis helps to highlight the benefits of investing in road safety and creating safer roads and safer speeds that will save lives. With widespread application of low-cost maintenance safety treatments, well-targeted investment in infrastructure upgrades and safer speeds across the India’s road network an estimated 1.8 crore lives and serious injuries can be saved by 2030 if Targets 3 is met.
