the road design at site.
the road design at site. Besides, vehicle analysis and person related details would help analyse accidents.
The government said the new format has been developed after a series of deliberations.
The accident recording form has five sections designed to capture all relevant information like accident identification/location, road condition, vehicles involved and victim details.
Section A contains accident identification details like location, vehicle type etc while section B captures road conditions and features like culvert, gradient, pothole etc.
"Section C would capture details about vehicle - both motorized and non-motorised, overloading etc. Section D would capture traffic violations by drivers and Section E would capture details about persons other than drivers involved in the accident," the statement said, adding the form is simple and would be easy for the police persons at thana levels to understand and fill up. It also minimises subjective elements.
In addition, the committee has also developed a set of corresponding annual road accident data Reporting Format consisting of 17 forms in which the states/ UTs would be required to furnish the annual road accident data to the Transport Research Wing of the Ministry within one month of the completion of a calendar year.
"This development is important as the data forms the basis for analysing the cause of accidents, identifying black spots and taking corrective steps to eliminate the same," the statement said.
This is also the data that gets compiled by the Transport Research Wing of the Ministry in its annual publication Road Accidents in India.
Over a period of time the data will reveal patterns which will provide solutions and enable action to be taken.
The Ministry had constituted the committee to review and recommend the 17-item format for reporting of road accident by the State/UT Police Departments to the Ministry for the annual publication of road accidents in India.
The committee included 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.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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