Reasons of road accidents: Engineering: Driver Dependent: skill of Driver Policy Related Regulation Natural Engineering: Road condition. In developed countries they have guard rails. Roads are wider than the size of vehicles. There is enough margin for vehicles coming from opposite direction. Extremely rural to roads made for rural access e.g. at the time of fire in jungles are much wider than the roads we have in Nepal, where bus with overload run. Minimum Signals don't exist at proper places. Road surfaces are not maintained well, why my fellow civil enginers want to join Highway department? Because they can chew concrete, they can chew tar / ashphalt. Road maintenance is the only place where you don't need to do anything to chew concrete and ashphalt, in paper you can mention that its done. Check the engineers who ever worked in maintenance sections of highways in Road Department. They have one after another building in Kathmandu. Shame on my profession. Now, driver incompetency. In Japan, it is said that to become a taxi driver, the driving test is too tough. The taxi driver can drive a car with a wine filled glass on top of roof without spilling a drop of wine. Public facility drivers are all we trained and extremely checked. Those who get driving license in Japan, knows what does a driving test mean, what a driver should be. Still road accident related death is 2nd/3rd reason of death among un-natural deaths after sucide. In Nepal, I have seen friends who are in Japan, got Nepali driving license while being in Japan, just using telephones to their relative or friends. Oops, one Indian friend of mine got driving (international) license from Calcutta ($30) via Internet, he even did not ever seat on driver's seat. Many Bangladeshis get the license like that. If issuance of driving license is so haphazard, should not accident be in same proportion? Policy? Nepal is country where lawyers demand that helmet use should not be mendatory? What the hell is this? If you don't use helmet, if you don't click you seat belt, who is going to suffer? In developed countries, all long route buses are equipped with passenger seat belt and are adviced to use it. In Nepal, how many deaths could have been reversed if there were enough seat belt to each passenger? I can guess, only seat belt in public long route buses would have saved more than half of lives lost. Speed limit: Have you ever heard about speed limit? Most of the accidents in Prithvi highway, Gorkah-Narayanghat HW, or other hill roads are due to the speeding of vehicles in curves. The curves have radius less than 50m, then, road curves are not banked properly at curves. Thus, the centrifugal acceleration: m (v^2) / r = mg x frictional coef (tan theta) that is v = sqaure root of (gr tanTheta) where tanTheta is coefficient of static friction about 0.25 ................. (depends on tyre condition, road condition)..... thus, its a very small indeed. But, have you ever noticed how high speed they drive in those curves, in that narrow road without centerline or lane separators. Strict enforcement ? You create a new rule, thats going to another corruption garne bhando. Most of the drivers in highway don't drive without drinking one or two shots of alchohol. Most of the drivers come from low economic condition: promoted from khalashi to driver, so they know the importance allcohol free driving. If you don't have enough money to feed your stomach, probably the alcohol was the best way for them to kill the gas in stomach and its going to kill the passengers.... need education. Who is going to provide them? Is there any reporting place for complains? in Japan when a bus driver was found drunk, passenger immediately called her mother, mother called transport comany and police. The driver was traced and finally dismissed from job. Do we have such honest and prompt action policy against offenders? The list goes on. Rest Later. GP