News Formal

Investment Banker Turned Social Entrepreneur Aims To Cut To Zero India’s 170,000 Annual Road Deaths

  • 📰 ForbesTech
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 32 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 16%
  • Publisher: 59%

Road Safety ข่าว

ประเทศไทย ข่าวล่าสุด,ประเทศไทย หัวข้อข่าว

Carlton Reid has been writing about sustainability and transport for more than 30 years. He also writes for The Guardian, Daily Mail and Wired.com. He was Press Gazette’s Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. His most recent books include Roads Were Not Built for Cars and Bike Boom, both published by Island Press, Washington, D.C.

founded a road safety nonprofit following the needless death of his 16-year-old cousin Shivam Bajpai in Kanpur, India. Needless because, after being struck by a motorist, Bajpai bled to death at the side of the road when nobody came to his rescue.

“I had a very comfortable life. I was earning a more than reasonable living. I was able to support my family, including my parents, something I had wanted to do, coming from a tough background. I thought that I would probably become an entrepreneur myself.”“On the fifth of April, 2007, my cousin Shivam was on his way back from school, tried to cross a road, and was struck by a vehicle coming in the wrong direction of traffic.

He has his work cut out for him—there are 170,000 deaths on Indian roads every year. SaveLife campaigns to improve road infrastructure, driver behavior, and trauma care.Corbis via Getty Images

เราได้สรุปข่าวนี้มาให้อ่านอย่างรวดเร็ว หากสนใจข่าว สามารถอ่านฉบับเต็มได้ที่นี่ อ่านเพิ่มเติม:

 /  🏆 318. in TH
 

ขอบคุณสำหรับความคิดเห็นของคุณ ความคิดเห็นของคุณจะถูกเผยแพร่หลังจากได้รับการตรวจสอบแล้ว

ประเทศไทย ข่าวล่าสุด, ประเทศไทย หัวข้อข่าว

Similar News:คุณยังสามารถอ่านข่าวที่คล้ายกันนี้ซึ่งเรารวบรวมจากแหล่งข่าวอื่น ๆ ได้

Selfridges owner secures major investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment FundThailand’s Central Group, the majority shareholder, has accepted a deal that grants its new partner a 40 percent stake in the British luxury department store chain.
แหล่ง: LuxuryDaily - 🏆 325. / 59 อ่านเพิ่มเติม »