It is a scandal that India has arguably the most unsafe highways anywhere in the world and even undercounts the number of road crash deaths. The World Health Organisation (WHO), in its last available Global Status Report on Road Safety, 2023, estimates that over 62,000 more lives were lost in the country than the officially reported 153,972. WHO’s estimates of injuries are 50 times that number. This is a colossal loss, and no measure to bring sanity to Indian roads would, therefore, appear excessive.

Supreme Court directions

The Supreme Court must be thanked for periodically nudging governments to act. The latest in such orders that advance Article 21’s guarantee of the right to life are the SC’s comprehensive directions in a suo motu case initiated in the wake of terrible........

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