road safety week

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The mangaluru traffic police station celebrated the national road safety week by going to schools and colleges and reaching out to autorickshaw and taxi drivers. They also stopped two-wheeler riders and drivers without helmets or seatbelts.

The 33rd Nashik road safety week started on Wednesday with an inauguration program organized by the Nashik Regional Transport Office (RTO).

Observance of the 26th national road safety week culminated on Saturday with the transport department pointing out that the rate of accidents in the state has increased by 8% for the year 2014, while the fatalities reported in these accidents for the same period has decreased by 5%since 2013

With road safety week being observed from January 1 to 7, the Regional Transport Office, Madurai, has planned a weeklong celebrations in the city to sensitise the public about the importance of following traffic rules.

On the conclusion of the week-long awareness campaign under 28th road safety week on Sunday, Uttarakhand governor K K Paul highlighted the need to curb accidents in hilly areas in the state through engineering better roads.

Against the backdrop of 317 road accident deaths in Goa last year and 176 road fatalities till June-end this year, the transport department is gearing to observe the first-ever Goa state road safety week from August 1. The state normally observes the national road safety week in the first week of January.

Police commissioner Raghavendra Auradker speaks at the valedictory of National road safety week at Dharwad.

Inaugurating the 22nd road safety week on Monday, chief minister Ashok Gehlot flagged off a rally of 1,500 school children from Amar Jawan Jyoti on Janpath.

The road safety week observed by Tata Steel, which started on January 1, concluded here on Wednesday.

The main function will be inaugurated by transport minister Braj Kishor Sharma at 11 am near Amar Jawan Jyoti in Jaipur.

As a part of an awareness campaign, road safety week was held with a mission "Accidents bring tears, safety brings cheer" in Manimajra on Thursday.

The regional transport office (RTO) in Pune has announced a road safety week from January 1 to 7, 2009, in order to create awareness about road safety among students.

The 19th ‘road safety week’ will be kicked off on Tuesday by divisional commissioner Nitin Kareer at RTO.

CHANDIGARH: The city police, on Saturday, launched a road safety week in collaboration with Indian Oil corporation. S P (traffic) Amitabh Dhillon said that the purpose of this safety week was to create awareness of traffic rules among the people.

The District Transport Office (DTO) began the 27th road safety week with an awareness programme for schoolchildren on Sunday.

The district transport administration, Kamrup is observing the '23rd road safety week' since January 1 with the theme of 'accident brings tears, safety brings cheers'.

The theme for the road safety week to be observed in the first week of January 2011 will be road safety is a mission, not intermission.

Police commissioner Kanti Rana Tata on Thursday organised a rally in city with around 500 bikes to create awareness about the importance of wearing helmets while riding two-wheelers. The event was held as part of National road safety week with the slogan ‘Safety First - Helmet Must.’

The customary road safety week observation began on Sunday, but many residents are unhappy about the safety of the roads.

At least 3,000 schoolkids will participate in the road safety awareness programme. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot will preside over the inauguration function at 11 am on Monday.

The Bidhan Nagar Police Commissionerate has rolled out a 'road safety week' at Rajarhat which was inaugurated on Friday by transport minister Madan Mitra, commissioner of police (Biddhan Nagar) Rajeev Kumar, fashion designer Agnimitra Paul and Sanjay Jain, managing director, Siddha Group.