 | The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and International Road Federation (IRF) are planning to use social networking websites like Facebook, micro-blogging site Twitter and video sharing site YouTube to spread awareness about road safety and help reduce fatal accidents by 50 per cent in the next three years. |
| Recently, the ministry and IRF launched a national campaign ‘Reduction of Road Fatalities’ for reducing road accidents by 50 per cent in India by 2012. According to a report on road safety by World Health Organization (WHO), India tops the global list of deaths in road accidents with 125,000 fatalities and at least 2.2 million serious injuries each year. India accounts for 10 per cent of global road accident deaths. |