India plans to step up safety on world?s most dangerous roads

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India plans to step up safety on world?s most dangerous roads

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/india-plans-step-safety-world-most-dangerous-roads-211032151.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dIQgU5G0s.Z2Xnk5wn0cvw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-11-03T211032Z_1_LYNXMPEAA20VU_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-ECONOMY-OIL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Heavy traffic moves along a busy road during the evening in New Delhi" align="left" title="Heavy traffic moves along a busy road during the evening in New Delhi" border="0" /></a>By Andrew MacAskill NEW DELHI (Reuters) - This year, the family of Rakesh Pillai, a bank employee, achieved a long-held aspiration. After hauling themselves around on bicycles and scooters all their lives, they bought a white Suzuki Wagon R, one of India's best-selling compact cars.It didn't matter that no family member knew how to drive. &quot;In India, the main rule for most drivers is that you don't stop for anyone,&quot; said Pillai, 31, who wears frameless glasses and sports a neatly trimmed mustache. &quot;Cars don't stop for walkers, and walkers don't stop for cars.&quot;India has the world's deadliest roads, the result of a flood of untrained drivers, inadequate law enforcement, badly maintained highways and cars that fail modern crash tests.</p><br clear="all"/>

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