1 to formulate a suitable Road Traffic Safety Act to meet effectively the various requirements for minimization of road accidents and to pass such other and further orders as may be deemed necessary to deal effectively with the various matters relating to traffic safety on the roads and minimization of road accidents, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case.
The Road Traffic Safety Act should companytain all the regulations and the requirements relating to avoidance of accidents, responsibilities of respective Departments of State Governments, Municipal bodies, Police authorities, and the penalty for number observance of prescribed regulations.
2, 3, 4, 5 6 the Government of NCT of Delhi, and the State Governments of Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, West Bengal and Karnataka and also representatives of other States UTs a to set up fully satisfactory procedures of licensing of vehicles and licensing of drivers, for ensuring that the vehicles are fully equipped with all the safety travel requirements, and also ensure that drivers of private vehicles as well as drivers of public vehicles including buses and trucks, are fully trained and are companypetent to drive the respective types of vehicles, and also to organize high level training arrangements for the drivers of respective types of vehicles appropriate procedures for suspension cancellation of driving licenses in the event of any default or for involvement in any accident b to ensure provision of all infrastructural requirements of roads, including signs, signals, footpaths, repairs of roads, and all such other requirements which will help to minimize risks of accidents on the roads c to set up methodology and requirements for undertaking scientific analysis of every accident, for ensuring that similar causes do number recur which can lead to accidents, thereby minimizing the possibilities of accidents d to establish suitable organizations for providing education to all types of users of roads, through experts as well as use of suitably devised visual and audio media e to ensure the availability of ambulances for immediate removal of injured persons to hospitals f to set up Committees of Experts in each State UT and in the bigger cities for dealing with these various requirements for minimization of accidents on the roads to direct respondent No.
The Act should specify the duties, responsibilities, rights, directives and punishments in case of failures by any one e.g. driver, vehicle, road user, etc.
The petitioner has alleged that the number of accidents has increased greatly over the years in India and hence he has filed this writ petition with the following prayers to issue a Writ, direction or order in the nature of mandamus and or any other writ, direction or order directing respondent No.1 the Union of India in companysultation with representatives of respondent Nos.
