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Among the major proximate causes of human deaths, the road traffic accident (RTA hereafter) constitutes a distinct category in global demographic parlance and statistics. However, in many developing countries including India, RTA as a cause of human deaths has received far less reckoning—both at the public and at the private domains—than it clearly deserves.
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World Health Organization, (2009) GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON ROAD SAFETY: TIME FOR ACTION, Geneva; pp. vii.
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See for review of literature e.g. Garg, N. and A.A. Hyder (2006), ‘Road Traffic injuries in India: a review of literature’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 34:100–109; Gururaj, G. (2008), ‘Road traffic injuries, deaths, and disabilities in India: current scenario’, National Medical Journal of India, 20(1).
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The following are the estimated equations of a polynomial fitted to the time-series data respectively on RTA deaths per 1,00,000 population (D1) and RTA deaths per 1,000 registered motor vehicles (D2): D1 = 20.0438 + 0.0583 t + 0.0054 t2, R2 = 0.9811; D2 = 6.9666 − 0.3617 t + 0.0063 t2, R2 = 0.9876.
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Gururaj 2006, op. cit.
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Maharatna, A. (2013). In the Name of ‘Accident’? India’s Road Traffic Deaths and Injuries. In: India’s Perception, Society, and Development. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1017-7_16
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