Uniform Road Accident Data Recording Format to be Adopted by State Police
The
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has constituted a Committee on
22nd November, 2016 to review the existing road accident data
collection and reporting format so as to make recording and reporting of
road accident data more accurate, objective and ensuring coverage of
all relevant information regarding actual circumstances or underlying
causes of road accidents for undertaking preventive measures to reduce
road accidents. The Committee includes experts from IIT-Delhi, IIT-
Kharagpur, WHO, senior officers from Police and Transport Departments of
states, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and officers of the
Ministry.
The committee submitted its recommendations on 9 February, 2017. The
committee has recommended uniform Road Accident Recording Format to be
adopted by the police in all States and U.Ts and a set of the
corresponding annual road accident data Reporting Format ( 17 tables) in
which States and U.Ts would furnish data to the Ministry.
All the states & U.Ts have been requested to adopt the road
accident recording format immediately so that they would be able to
furnish the annual road accident data in the new reporting format to
Transport Research Wing, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways w.e.f
calendar 2017. States and U.Ts have also been requested that the
formats for recording/reporting of road accidents data may be shared
with the members of the State Road Safety Council and other stakeholders
involved in the State Road Safety Action Plan.
It is expected that the newly designed road accident recording and
reporting formats would facilitate police in capturing all the relevant
information on road accident and transmit the information to the
Ministry and other stakeholders for taking corrective measures to reduce
road accidents in the country.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Road Transport
and Highways Shri Pon. Radhakrishnan in written reply to a question in
Lok Sabha today.
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