The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has asked all states to report accidents in a new 17-items format. From weather conditions at the time of an accident, to the exact location and type of vehicle involved, the ministry has issued a detailed list of accident reporting forms.
MoRTH asks States to follow uniform format
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In November 2016, the MoRTH had constituted a committee to review and recommend a 17-items format for reporting of road accidents by state police departments to the ministry for annual publication.
The committee that consisted of experts from IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, WHO and senior officers from police and transport departments recommended a uniform accident recording format to be adopted by police in all states. They also recommended a set of corresponding annual road accident data reporting format that each state would furnish to the ministry.
“All states are to adopt the revised road accident recording format immediately so that they would be able to furnish the annual road accident data in the new reporting format with effect from the 2017 calender year,” said MoRTH’s transport research wing’s senior adviser Kirit Saxena in a letter issued to all states.
The road accident recording format are based on five segments: accident identification details, road related details, vehicles involved in the accident, driver details and persons other than drivers involved in the accidents.
The forms that the ministry has issued to states include accident identification details containing time and place of the accident, type of accident, fatalities, property damage, type of weather, whether a hit and run or not, GPS location including latitude and longitude, the number of lanes and the road type, whether there was work or construction ongoing and features of the road (straight, curved, bridge, culvert, potholes or steep grade).
Vehicles involved in the accident will be entered using a separate code for two wheelers, auto rickshaws, buses, trucks, tempos or bicycles giving details of whether it needed to be towed, and if it was
The data forms the basis for analyzing the cause of accidents, identifying black spots and taking corrective measures to eliminate
the same
All the data gets compiled by the Transport Research Wing of the Ministry in its annual publication Road Accidents in India. Over a period of time the data will reveal patterns which will provide solutions and enable action to
be taken
