5. World’s First Car Accident
August 31, 1869 UK (Ireland)
Mary Ward was thrown from the car and fell
under the wheels as it rounded a bend.
This is believed to be the first recorded
automobile death.
6. 1.24 million deaths worldwide in the year
2010, slightly down from 1.26 million in 2000.
Middle-income countries have the highest
annual road traffic fatality rates, at 20.1 per
100 000.
While the rate in high-income countries is
lowest, at 8.7 per 100 000
Statistics
7. Traffic Laws Enforcement
Only 28 countries have adequate laws that
address all five risk factors:
1) Speed
2) Drink–driving
3) Helmets
4) Seat-belts
5) Child restraints
15. A Deadly Road Accident
The Al Shoaib passenger coach (JB-1158)
With over 62 passengers on board, was
traveling to Shikarpur from Steel Town in
Karachi.
It collided with the oil tanker which was
coming from the wrong side just after
Saturday midnight.
16. Cont’d…..
Following the early morning collision, the bus
burst into flames after its CNG cylinders
exploded.
17. Cont’d…..
The flames were so intense that the fire
brigade had to be called in to extinguish the
blaze.
18. Reoccurrence of Accident
The accident was the second major fatal
crash in Sindh in less than three months.
In November last year, at least 59
people were killed while 18 others sustained
injuries.
19. Fatalities
62 killed in horror blaze after crash between
bus and oil tanker which left victims' bodies
'completely burnt'
20. Cont’d…
Dr Semi Jamali at the hospital, said:" They
are beyond recognition, they can only be
identified by DNA test”.
21. Survivors
Nearly half-a-dozen passengers, who were
sitting on the roof of the bus, managed to
jump to safety.
The bus driver, conductor and the truck driver
also managed to save themselves as well.
Four other people were
also injured in the crash
22. Inquiry of Accident
CM Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah directed the
officials to carry out an inquiry into the
incident.
23. The Inquiry Committee
The committee comprising CIA DIG, DIG
East, SSP Investigation-II (East) and SSP
Traffic, Malir.
25. Tanker Driver’s Negligence
The tanker was apparently speeding down
the wrong side of the road when it ploughed
into the bus, carrying many women and
children.
The driver of the tanker reportedly fled the
scene after the crash.
26. Bus Driver’s Negligence
The driver did not have a valid license while a
fitness certificate of the vehicle had expired
on June 30, 2014.
The bus owner committed unlawful act by
allowing the driver to ply the bus.
27. Provincial Transport Authority’s
Negligence
The DIG traffic office record revealed that 83
show cause notices were issued to the
owners of vehicles plying without permit or
with invalid permit in 2012 but no such notice
had been issued in the case of the bus.
28. Delay in Rescue
Police officials claimed that fire tenders from
Steel Town did not arrive on the scene
quickly enough to put the flames out
A fire official from Landhi fire station said a
tender was dispatched soon after they
received a call.
29. Cont’d…
The report termed the response “criminally
delayed” and called for their accountability.
Witnesses, however, said first fire tender
reached the site nearly two hours after the
incident took place.
30. Denied Evacuation Plan
Safe evacuation was denied to the bus
passengers due to fixing of extra seats.
Unbreakable plastic windows.
31. The KMC and Malir DMC’s
Negligence
The KMC and Malir DMC were responsible
for carpeting, repairing and maintenance of
this damaged road.
32. Results of the inquiry report
If the said stakeholders and the government
institutions had fulfilled their responsibility
and followed the proper code of conduct, this
tragic incident could have been avoided.
The government departments were “chiefly
responsible for this tragic accident”.
33. In general, Pakistan has an appalling record
of fatal traffic accidents due to poor roads,
badly-maintained vehicles and reckless
driving.
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August 31, 1869 UK (Ireland)– While riding as a passenger with relatives in an experimental steam car, Mary Ward was thrown from the car and fell under the wheels as it rounded a bend. This is believed to be the first recorded automobile death. The car was built by her cousins, the sons of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
According to the World Health Organization statistics, road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.24 million deaths worldwide in the year 2010, slightly down from 1.26 million in 2000. That is one person is killed every 25 seconds.
80% of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries
which account for 72% of the world’s population, but only 52% of the world’s registered vehicles.
Only 28 countries, representing 449 million people (7% of the world’s population), have adequate laws that address all five risk factors (speed, drink–driving, helmets, seat-belts and child restraints).
Half of the world’s road traffic deaths occur among:
Latest report
The Al Shoaib coach (JB-1158), with over 60 passengers on board, was travelling to Shikarpur from Steel Town in Karachi. It was on the Kathor link road of the Super Highway when it collided with the tanker which was coming from the wrong side just after Saturday midnight.
Passengers fell unconscious inside the bus due to suffocation
So intense were the flames that the fire brigade had to be called in to extinguish the blaze. However, by the time the fire brigade had put the flames out, the bus and the tanker were completely gutted.
when a passenger bus collided with a goods truck near Khairpur, Sindh. The passenger bus was en route to Karachi from Swat when it collided with the truck on Theri Bypass.
Dr Semi Jamali at the hospital, said the bodies of at least six children were stuck to women who may have been their mothers, adding it was impossible to separate the remains.
“They are beyond recognition, they can only be identified by DNA test,” she added
Speaking to the media outside Chief Minister (CM) House, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon said CM Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the officials to carry out an inquiry into the incident.
The report said the incident took place between 12.15am and 12.30am (midnight) due to criminal negligence of the oil tanker driver who changed lane and came on the wrong side of the very narrow and dilapidated road that had no space for an overtake
Transport authority
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The report said it was the provincial transport authority responsibility to issue route permits to intra-provincial public transport for a period of three years under the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, 1965. The route permit had been issued to the bus in 2004, but the PTA neither cancelled nor suspended the permit after it had expired in 2006. Under the MVO, the PTA was supposed to cancel/ suspend the permit and inform the traffic police for taking legal action, the committee noticed.
“This shows negligence on part of official concerned of PTA because if required legal action had been taken against the bus owner in 2012 as was done in the cases of other defaulted vehicles, this tragic accident might have not occurred,” said the report
It added negligence by the departments concerned slowed down rescue operation that should have been very rapid in the situation. “Such [rapid] response was not seen in this particular case where the victims had been left to die in the raging fire, as there was no one from the government side to save their lives by taking immediate rescue operation,” said the inquiry team headed by DIG Traffic Dr Amir Ahmed Shaikh.
The loss of life could have been reduced if the rescue services, especially fire tenders, had reached the accident place early but they arrived there around two hours after the collision, the report said, adding that an SOS call to the fire department, Steel Mills and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (Landhi station) had been made in time, the report said.
Safe evacuation was denied to the bus passengers due to fixing of extra seats which blocked emergency exit and unbreakable plastic windows, according to the inquiry report. The bus had the capacity of 44 seats originally but the owner had fixed extra seats even in the corridor between the seats in order to accomodate passengers above the capacity. Fences/iron rods were found fixed on the windowpanes, which ultimately confined the passengers in the bus providing them no access to jump out in emergency.
It also took Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and district municipal corporation to task for not repairing the road.
It added the link road where this tragic incident took place is totally in “dilapidated condition having deep pits and bumpy surface which is not only dangerous for human lives but also causes serious damage to the vehicles plying thereon
