Number and Type of Violations

22 September 2010 - 11:30am — silkboard

Data on traffic violations, by type - comparative statement: M.V. ACT Cases booked for years 2006 TO 2010 in Bangalore City:

#	Type of Offences	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010 Till 31/07
1	Dangerous Driving	105009	86952	86436	55567	31665
2	Over Speeding	4567	3666	31001	63677	43272
3	Over Loading	22276	15398	13617	14413	9180
4	Drunken Driving	27264	27644	30593	38665	40683
5	Refuse to go for Hire	17379	12455	14139	21820	21082
6	Demanding Excess Fare	7777	6578	8639	11686	11156
7	A/R Display Card	726	1607	623	1626	918
8	Defective Fare Meter	40	56	63	39	100
9	Defective Silencer	21949	10482	12814	12005	14206
10	Emitting Block Smoke	19149	8112	10966	215	674
11	Shrill Horn	26356	28333	26568	13286	15827
12	Without Permit	3638	3678	2772	2314	1100
13	Without D.L..	78758	55937	61102	40791	26068
14	Jumping Traffic Signal	180271	143844	288705	558420	344762
15	Wrong Parking	256956	217593	239639	377971	271548
16	Cutting Yellow Lane	41825	17588	64548	117197	122386
17	Defective Registration No Plate	37848	32460	49945	43188	31976
18	No Entry	111554	85291	124399	282111	265611
19	HTV Prohibited	51380	34227	50392	55441	48742
20	Without Uniform	43650	27094	49897	62571	41514
21	Without I.C.	19861	15716	24497	8834	3697
22	Without F.C.	156	233	317	286	112
23	Defective Head Light	26347	19918	20489	20348	11871
24	Defective Tail Light	1269	498	770	1019	553
25	Not Produce Documents	50803	34337	47490	22460	13877
26	Over taking by left	39145	29844	43199	25639	5948
27	Mobile Phone	29496	19372	40282	64297	51003
28	Safety Belt	92	636	636	900	1119
29	Without Helmet	59297	237998	199862	230769	154734
30	Others	233971	162509	240190	366084	276059
TOTAL		1518809	1340056	1784590	2513639	1861443

Comments

Seat belts for all occupants?

Transmogrifier - 23 Sep 2010 - 4:16am

Curious if Karnataka MVA requires the use of seat belts by 'drivers only' or 'all occupants' of private motor vehicles. Intuitively, it should be 'all occupants' and as this neat paper indicates, passengers were more likely to suffer injuries than drivers.

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Harassment is down, and more observations

silkboard - 23 Sep 2010 - 12:39am

Some trends that should catch your eye are:

"Not produce document" is down from 50K to half in last 4 years (2010 appx 25K). We all know how useless/lazy and harassing jobs these general document checks used to be.
"Dangerous driving" counts show steady decline (from 1 lakh in 2006 to appx 60K this year). Congestion levels are more or less the same since 2006, so can't be that drivers have less scope for driving dangerously. Is police not fining enough for reckless driving? Or was this a random thing that was also being used to harass drivers? Or has Bangalore been driving better?
"Emitting Black Smoke" - whats that drop? Some rule change? Or was this also discretionary / harassment thing that has gone down now?
Overall numbers declined from 2006 and 2007. Really odd, data gathering problem that year, or did traffic cops take things easy in 2007?

Some others

There is a "seat belt" category, but numbers are very low? Why? 90% car drivers don't buckle up.
Signal jumping numbers have gone up three times, all thanks to BTRAC driven automation.

Number plates

hmajay - 22 Sep 2010 - 10:56pm

The Central government should make it a rule that the number plates should have English saying that it is security issue.

It will be easy for police/security personnel to track down the offending vehicles if they are in English.

Ajay

what about Kannada (only) number plates?

murali772 - 22 Sep 2010 - 1:38pm

17) Defective Registration No Plate.

Though the bookings under this heading are fairly sizable, I guess they do not include for 'having number plates only in Kannada', since I see enough and more of even police mobikes going about in this fashion all over the city, in blatant and open violation of the M V Act - check this.

Want to check with Mr Sood about this during the meeting scheduled this week-end?

Muralidhar Rao

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