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Cultural empathy must in road safety laws; huge scope for ‘make...

Share FacebookTwitterWhatsAppPinterestLinkedinCopy URLTelegramEmailTumblrReddItPrintKoo DAVOS,  Jan 19: With chances of people getting killed or injured being several times higher than other modes of transport, an Indian expert on road safety has underlined that safe mobility would be key to realising the ‘Viksit Bharat’ goal, and there is a huge potential for a ‘Make in India’ model of tackling road crashes for the Global South. He said there are good samaritan laws in the Western world also, but those might not work in other countries, as cultural empathy is a key component on whether these regulations work or not. Speaking to PTI during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here, SaveLife Foundation’s founder and CEO Piyush Tewari said road safety should be a big part of the conversation because mobility gives us access to our most basic rights to health, education and all the other key development indicators that are so much a part of the Viksit Bharat 2047 mission.

Cultural empathy must in road safety laws; huge scope for ‘make...

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  • Tewari, who started working in the area of road safety after losing a young family member in a road crash in 2007, and went on to play a key role in framing India’s Good Samaritan law, said a lot of families are affected by this on a daily basis.
  • “When I started working in this area way back in 2007, I realised that something had to be done at a systemic level, not just at a behaviour level, to fix the issues that were causing such a large number of deaths.
  • “And that’s how the journey began.
  • We first focused on the Good Samaritan law and then focused on applying the best practices on the ground by creating zero fatality corridors and zero fatality districts,” he said.
  • “And what we’re really trying to do here at Davos this time is to show that there is a model for safer roads that is not coming from the West but coming from the Global South” he said.
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