Why do we neglect our own safety so easily?

If you think about it Indians don't care about safety standards, most of the times the set parameters of safety for a company, vehicles, schools and other places are never met. As an Individuals itself people don't care of their own safety, which is evident if you see how people travel in local trains or how some bikers drive in traffic.Most of the people don't wear seat belts or helmets and the ones who do, do it to avoid fines rather than safety purposes.


So it should not come as a surprise, when Global new car assessment program (Global NCAP) came up with the following Statement, "The latest Indian crash test result in Delhi continue to disappoint with all five model rated as zero."

Maruti Suzuki celerio and Eeco, Renault Kwid and Hyundai Eon, were the cars that was tested and all of them scored a zero rating. Mahindra Scorpio- an all terrain SUV once termed as prime minister's Vechicle, was the fifth car and it disappointed too with zero rating.

The results of Five vechicles:

According to NCAP general secretary David Ward, a car must have 'A stable Body shell ' and  'atleast a Front Airbags' to be considered stable during crash.

HYUNDAI EON- NO AIRBAGS

MAHINDRA SCORPIO- NO AIRBAGS

MARUTI SUZUKI CELERIO- NO AIRBAGS

MARUTI SUZUKI EECO- NO AIRBAGS

RENAULT KWID (I)- NO AIRBAGS

Industry Experts are disappointed by Renaults as even their Airbag- fitted version failed the test.

On Renaults kwid, this is what the NCAP said, "It is very surprising that a manufacturer like Renault introduced the Kwid initially lacking this essential feature. Global NCAP stongly believe that no manufacturer anywhere in the world should be developing new models that are clearly so Sub-standard."

It looks like even the manufacturers are avoiding the safety parameters with such results. Its sad that one of leading automobile markets in the world has such a poor standards of safety, despite having a world's highest death rate in road fatalities. One of the reason is lack of legislation or laws about testing vehicles. Lets hope that such news could bring about the required change in mindset of people in searching for a low maintenance and high efficiency cars with the required safety considerations.