In a bid to carry down fatalities attributable to accidents, there isn’t a want for extra stringent visitors norms, Mercedes-Benz India Managing Director & CEO, Martin Schwenk and added that it’s reasonably essential to implement these guidelines correctly.
The highway questions of safety got here beneath the scanner as soon as once more after former Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry died in an accident that entails a Mercedes-Benz car.
“If everybody would behave as per the regulation, we’d have already got a major discount in highway fatalities, and that is for two-wheeler, three-wheeler and four-wheeler,” Schwenk informed PTI right here on the sidelines of SIAM annual session.
Noting that India sees a large variety of highway accidents yearly, he lamented, “The hole shouldn’t be a lot within the regulation half. It is within the behavioral and within the enforcement of present rules, which each may considerably scale back the highway fatalities in all modes of transportation to get down from the 1.5 lakh annual deaths on the Indian roads”
He additional mentioned, “Behave as per the codes and implement the codes.”
Relating to the protection issues of the corporate’s car, he mentioned, “Mercedes Benz has excelled not solely on the product aspect, but additionally engaged loads in creating probably the most most secure car and I’ll nonetheless say, we’re on the forefront on security on automobiles.”
Schwenk additional mentioned, “We’re identified for having superior security requirements and all of our automobiles for instance, all of them have a minimum of six airbags, a few of them seven, 9 and the Maybach has 13 airbags… we now have all 5 star examined (for crash) automobiles.”
On Mistry accident, he mentioned,”I am very assured concerning the high quality of our merchandise, we now have absolutely cooperated with the police.”
(With inputs from businesses)
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