As per the recent report of WHO, India faces a GDP loss of Rs. 5.96 Lakh Crore every year. Road accidents have been reduced globally and increased in India. Every day in India more than 500 people are dyoing in road accidents and with the same pace of increasing road accidents it can cross 5000 per day in next 35 years and the GDP loss will cross Rs. 60 Lakh Crore per year. Are we prepared for such a huge loss of precious lives and GDP loss is the open question and our economy will be collapsed. Do you want to go through a situation or grow through it.? Choice is yours!

 

When we share the roads which are a common space we must share responsibility, we have a duty towards the shared spaces of the roads we use and we must fulfill that duty which is prevention of road accidents and also self-accountability. We kept cleaning the mirror but the dust was on the face.

 

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the privacy for themselves and the accountability for everyone else.  Accountability feels like an attack when we are unwilling to acknowledge how our behavior on the roads harms others.  At the end of the day, we are accountable for ourselves because our safety is a result of our actions and behavior on the roads. 

 

It is difficult to hold someone else accountable when we have to be held accountable for the same mistake. Responsibility is accepting that we are the cause and solution to the problem of increasing road accidents. The reason for road accidents is zero accountability and zero road safety responsibility, so we must take responsibility for road safety and hold each other accountable. 

 

 

Responsibility equals accountability equals sense of ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon an individual or group has in battling to end the daily road carnage.  A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Taking responsibility makes you more confident and builds your character, but passing the buck doesn't give you a chance to learn from your mistakes or help you better. 

 

Every road user must take responsibility and accountability of their actions, results and impacts to end daily carnage. Accept responsibility for your actions. Be accountable for your results. Take ownership of your mistakes. Correct and compensate for your mistakes. It is not about what we do, but also what we do not do on roads, for which we are accountable. 

 

It is easy to avoid our responsibilities but we cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding our responsibilities. Save yourself from yourself. By taking responsibility for yourself you can stop relying on others to take your responsibility. Be more concerned with accepting responsibility rather than assigning blame. Road users who do not hold themselves accountable to themselves should not be trusted, because no power in the universe can heal them.

 

It is in our best interest to recognize that there is a difference between being responsible and taking responsibility and people select being responsible. If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do on roads. Accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results. No one is coming to save you. Our life is our responsibility. Whether to be held accountable or to be a victim is one of those fundamental decisions that everyone needs to make, whereas the former leads us to a happier and more rewarding life.  

Darkness is no match with light but light must be active because in the absence of light darkness is automatic. Victimity is no match with accountability but accountability must be active because in the absence of accountability victimity is automatic. Road users are rejecting the accountability and accepting the victimity automatically and because of the sleeping consciousness.

 

The government is requesting NGOs to work on the mindset and human behaviour change of road users. A change in the outer world can be made by anyone, alone or together, but a change in the inner world is a matter of each individual.  When people try to change themselves, they try for a few days and then fall back into their old ways.

Our behavior of doing anything right or wrong lies in our internal mechanism, so we should learn our internal mechanism and upgrade our internal world. We don't learn the internal mechanism because it is invisible and we are focusing on learning the visible things of outer world. Half knowledge of outer world makes us believe that we know everything, but the biggest enemy of half knowledge is the illusion that we know everything or that we have complete knowledge based on half knowledge. First learn to drive the human body then learn to drive the metal body. We are incompetent where  we should be competent. Hence the present situation of increasing accidental suicides. Have you learned to drive human body?

Can't we take responsibility for changing our behavior as an important part of the shared responsibility for road safety? When accidental suicides are on the rise, resist the urge to blame others and instead be part of the solution to fix the problem, if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. 

When we receive benefit and pleasure from our road traffic violations, we consider them right and repeat them. In life, if we are making mistakes against ourselves, there is an option to correct our mistakes. If that option is available, we must come forward immediately to correct them and compensate for them over procrastination.  Uncorrected mistakes on the road can lead to disorderly conduct and can harm others or harm yourself to the point of accidental suicide.

We don't want to look at our mistakes and this make us less conscious and cautious on roads. We reject to receive any improvement, updation, upgradation and evaluation advice. We are confident in our experience, familiarity and stability gained from daily travel on the roads. But every day around 500 of our fellow road users are dying in accidental suicides with this same confidence, that means, their confidence is an illusion and so is ours. We all are not untouched by this accidental suicide. Always remember overconfidence is your biggest enemy as it blurs risk and underconfidence amplifies it.

True prevention is not waiting for an accident to happen, but preventing accidents from happening in the first place. Remember that when the disaster strikes the time for preparation has already passed.  Taking action to prevent disaster is humane and waiting for the disaster to occur then take action is in humane. By failing to prepare we are preparing to fail.  Road accidents can be prevented with as much certainty as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them are to be blamed for the dead.  

Road users participate in road safety awareness campaigns and appreciate and clap at venue but don't implement these principles in their daily life, don't implement insights into reality and don't convert awareness into preparedness. We should know the value of responsibility the value of self-accountability and prevention then we will take the responsibility.

Prevention is better than cure. Treatment without prevention is absolutely not sustainable. Unless an accident occurs, prevention is not given importance. Advice after injury is like a medicine after death because it is least heeded when most needed. People are coming forward to join us not at the cost of advice but at the cost of precious lives. Why not at the cost of advice ? The first step towards change is awareness and the second step is acceptance. If you don't like something in the outside world then change it, if you can't change it then change your inner world. It is always easier to change the inner world than to change the outer world.

All key stakeholders are provoiding theory and practical training but no one is providing the knowledge of National Road Safety Model Code of Conduct. We all learn to drive a metal body but we never learn how to drive human body on road.  Road users must attend Road Safety Meet to know and accept the Road Safety Model Code of Conduct and lock the date to start implementing the date to implement the awarness into preparedness to heal their fortune and legacy.

We take recourse to God at the end of our lives when all our support is exhausted and we become helpless. If we take God's help in the beginning itself, we will never be helpless in life. Join us to learn the "Art of saving 1Self from 1Self". If you want to be controlled by others then ask for testimony. If you want to control yourself then take the trial and become a testimony for yourself. You can never be like others if you copy others. Be original and let the world follow you. There are people who are inspired by others for a short period of time and then become discouraged by others or when their emotions become dull. People who are inspired by their intelligence remain motivated for a long time. Remind yourself that if it were easy everyone would do it. If you want to quit, think about why you started.