ABSTRACT
Department of Civil Engineering, Shiv Nadar University Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh,
India
Planning and
More than one-and-a-quarter-million people have been killed in road accidents in India over the last decade. Road safety in India needs a coordinated, crisis-level response. But the response of the central government and the state governments is incremental at best. This chapter examines the problem of road safety in India from a law and policy perspective. We look at the legislative and policy response to the road safety crisis, examine the existing and proposed traffic safety policies and enabling legislation, summarize the attempts to update legislation and how such attempts have not made much progress, and end by looking at the attempts by the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India to fill the road safety gap left by the apparent abdication of responsibility by the legislature and executive.
