Essay On Traffic Accident

The spectacular increase in the number of motor vehicles on the road has created a major social problem-the loss of lives through road accidents. The accident situation is serious in India because of the rapid growth of motor vehicles in the past few years and the inadequacy of many of our roads and streets to cope up with this traffic. Red light runners cause hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries each year. Due to such serious loss of human lives and economic loss , there is a strong requirement of finding solution to prevent or at least reduce them. So, by finding a method to prevent violation of red light will reduce accidents.

INTRODUCTION

What are traffic signals?

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations to control competing flows of traffic. Traffic signals provide orderly movement of traffic and with proper geometric layout and control measures, they can increase the traffic handling capacity of the roads. They reduce frequency of traffic accidents and regulate heavy traffic flow. Traffic signal consist of three main notations-red light, yellow light, green light; the green light allows traffic to proceed in the direction

And data released by the traffic police shows a year on year growth in traffic rule violations and an unrelenting resistance to some rules such as wearing seat belts and obeying traffic signals. Signal jumping has been the most rampant offence with more than 1.1 lakh cases so far this year, followed by the number of violations of the seat-belt rule and halting vehicles beyond the stop-line at traffic signals. Signal jumping is one of the main reasons of accidents at traffic signal. In spite of making people aware and forcing them to follow rules, so far no improvement has been