There has been a remarkable fall in road accidents in Kolkata and the rest of West Bengal since 2016 which is reflected in the tally of fatal accidents. This has been enabled by a special campaign involving the four ‘Es’ of education, enforcement, engineering and emergency. But new attitudes need time to take root and what has worked most till now, say road users, is stricter policing and rigorous levying of fines.
In the case of Kolkata, fatal accidents fell by 5.8 percent in 2016 over the previous year and then again in. . .