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Overloaded Trucks * India - Are death-on-wheels
One in every three trucks in the country is overloaded and they are to blame for 50 per cent of road accidentsNew Delhi,India -The Hindustan Times, by Cooshalle Samuel -November 26, 2007: -- ... Surveys by the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training have found... Around three-fourths of the annual Rs 550 billion loss from road accidents was attributed to the unorganised truck transport industry. The foundation said over 92,500 people were killed each year in road accidents in the country coming under the wheels of the overloaded vehicles... Most trucks were found overloaded by 25-50 per cent... But small-time operators and middlemen who run the majority of the country’s trucks consider overloading a necessary evil. Part of the problem is the industry’s skewed ownership pattern that makes accountability difficult... (Picture from BigLorryBlog on November 5, 2007)
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