1. AWARENESS OF TRAFFIC SIGNS

Hand Signals: Hand signals are important to let know the other drivers behind and beside you that you are going to change your direction or lane. By using hand signals, a lot of confusion and accidents can be avoided. The basic hand signals to note are: to slow down the vehicle, you should extend your right hand swinging it up and down with your palm facing downwards, for stopping the vehicle raise your forearm vertically outside  and to let the vehicle behind you to overtake, just swing the right arm forward and backward in a semi circular motion.

Direction Indicators: Driving indicators helps in times of darkness and also in place of using hand signals. It is mandatory to maintain adequate distance between other vehicles before changing the lane or direction and even while travelling for safe driving.

Traffic signs and signals: Every intersection of the road has two or more traffic signals whose color codes (Red, Orange, Green) indicates different meaning to allow safe walking and travelling. Also, traffic signs for one way, U-turn, schools, hospital, prohibited zones, no horns area, etc. should be known by all drivers to avoid road mishaps and penalties.

Lanes of the Road: You must stay on the left hand side of the road at all times unless you are overtaking if there are more than two lanes on the road. And in case of overtaking to change your lane, always signal both in terms of hand signal and direction indicators to let know others that your changing your lanes. Always avoid regular lane changing.

2. SPEEDING LIMIT

Setting a permissible speed limit has proved to be an effective measure in controlling traffic and safety. People driving on roads should follow these rules and many highway police in India are making use of automated instruments through which they can track the speed of vehicles. The penalty of violating speed should be made compulsory and even for all people regardless of their class or status.

Install Speed Witness Radars

The Speed Witness Radars can be installed in high traffic areas and highways in every part of the city in India. Radar speed measuring device works by emitting an electronic beam on a moving vehicle which in turn gets reflected back to the unit giving the speed of the vehicle. This is known as Doppler Effect or Doppler Shift.

An animation illustrating how the Doppler effect causes a car engine or siren to sound higher in pitch when it is approaching than when it is receding.  - Source (Wikipedia)

3. WEAR YOUR SHIELDS ALWAYS

Always wear seat belts on a four wheeler: Seat belts on four wheeler should be made mandatory for travelling on the road. The seat belt acts as a protector nullifying the effect of inertia as said in Newton's First Law of Motion. In simple words, when a car is travelling in a particular direction, the person seated in the car too continues in the same direction. But when the car collides with some object with a sudden halt to the car, the person seated on the car is been thrown forward to balance the sudden bounce back off the car which causes a lot of damage both to the car and the person seated on it. Wearing a seat belt will help you from hitting forward and minimize the damage. It has been found that wearing seat belts has saved a lot of lives in India after its invention and utilization. It is also important to wear the seat in proper condition to increase the chances of survival.

Always wear helmet on a two wheeler: Wear helmet saves from unwanted head injury when something happens while travelling in a two wheeler. Always give way for others to avoid collision.

4. THE DRIVER VIOLATION POINT SYSTEM

The Driver Violation Point System is a way to identify and take action against high risk drivers. The Department of Motor Vehicle in the US and even in the UK, offers Motoring Penalty Codes And Points assigning points for most traffic violations which in turn is registered in the driver's driving record.

A certain number of points are allocated for different and common traffic violations like speeding, reckless driving, improper cell phone use, inadequate brakes, safety violation of not using a seat belt, etc and are recorded in the driving record in times of violation. The points recorded in the driving record determines the fate of your future driving - the more the points, the more costlier is your insurance premiums as well as results in the suspension or revoking your driving license. You got to pay a high fee to get back the license. Yes, face the charge sheet for careless driving. A similar system of points allocation and recording should be introduced and followed in India for safe driving.

5. AWARENESS THROUGH HOARDINGS

Indian roads are filled with banners of models, jewellery and other ads in almost every road which in fact distracts drivers while travelling especially in between the lanes of the roads. Instead, one or two such banners on every road can display the traffic rules in pictures.

Awareness through hoardings (background credits - pages.rediff.com)

By seeing them every day, even the ones who don't have enough education on the same will get to know all about road safety. In high traffic areas, banners like " Using Mobile while driving kills your life. Instead, stop and park your vehicle in a safe corner of road avoiding unwanted blockage to attend the call in case of emergency" will sure prove to be fruitful.

Source:http://www.momscribe.com/2014/12/ten-points-on-road-safety-with-safe.html