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This road accident on a flyover in Delhi led to the car catching fire... Road traffic accidents kill more than 120 lakh people and injure more than 50 Crore people worldwide every year. Everyday about 6600 deaths and 3300 serious injuries occur due to RTAs. The global annual cost due to RTA's is a whopping 2, 30,000 million US dollars. Unfortunately India has the dubious distinction of having the worst record of road safety in the world. In India, 1, 20,000 people die and 12, 70,000 sustain serious injuries every year in Road Traffic Accidents. As per the statistics, there is one death on the Indian road every six minutes and this is expected to escalate to one death every three minutes by 2020. Even this may be an underestimation, as according to the Institute of Road Traffic Education (2