In a first of its kind, the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) on Friday inaugurated a separate 'Road Safety Court of Justice' to train the judicial officials and prosecutors for the first time in the road safety management college, IRTE. This court room, created for the first time, will teach, train and work towards curbing road accidents and traffic snarls in Delhi and across the nation.
The court room was inaugurated by the lieutenant Governor (LG) of Pondicherry Kiran Bedi on Friday.
The main agenda behind the court room is to train the traffic police officials in dealing with road accidents and the judicial and prosecutors to deal the accident case, traffic fines cases and announcing punishments in the matter of road safety issues.
"If we see in foreign countries for instance United Kingdom (UK), they have a proper management to deal with an accident. If any accident take place be it simple or fatal, they close the particular stretch for about four hours to investigate the area to identify why the accident took place, was it a driver's fault or road engineering fault and 30 percent of road accident has been decreased. But, in our country the road is cleared in less than an hour after an accident takes place and traffic in charge files an First Information Report (FIR) as rash driving without looking into the matter and investigating," said an official.
'Thus, this court room will play an important role in improving road engineering and training traffic officials and also curbing accidents, traffic jams and bribery," the official added.
Further, the two day conference will have about 200 Police official's, legal officers, and prosecutors from various parts of India, USA, UK, Netherlands and Finland who will take part in the international workshop titled' Dangers in road usage'. The workshop was inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Gen (retd) Dr V.K.Singh.
"The main aim of the Workshop is to improve road safety by clearly recognizing and defining accident causation in relation to drivers and other road users, vehicles, road infrastructure and identifying issues in the existing Codes of Practice. This would help law enforcement agencies and judiciary in building a safe road environment in the country and enhance road safety," said Dr Rohit Baluja, President, IRTE .
"During the Workshop, a special interaction will be held between drivers of taxis and school buses who have received training under this initiative, and the participants of the Workshop. Such an interaction would help the decision makers in fine-tuning the recommendations of the Workshop," added Baluja.
