Maruti on track to meet safety norms
NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki is racing ahead of the pack in making its vehicles compliant to new crash regulations.
Five of its popular models — S-Cross, Baleno, Ciaz, Vitara Brezza and Ignis — have been successfully tested for pedestrian, offset-frontal and full-frontal crash safety, the most for any mass producer of cars India. The nation’s largest carmaker by sales is developing an in-house facility to conduct pedestrian and frontal crash tests at Rohtak near Delhi at a cost of Rs 3,800 crore. The facility, in which it has already invested Rs 1,900 crore and is operational, will provide support also to parent Suzuki’s global operations.
“We have conducted 35-40 different crash tests on each model and variant to check the compliance,” said CV Raman, executive director in charge of R&D.
India accounts for the most number of fatalities in road accidents. According to a World Health Organization report in 2015, about 12.5 lakh people die in road accidents globally every year and 2 lakh of these deaths happen in India.
Experts blame lack of safety regulations, disregard to compliance of existing rules as well as poor maintenance of vehicles and bad roads among the reasons for large number of road accident deaths here.
Five of its popular models — S-Cross, Baleno, Ciaz, Vitara Brezza and Ignis — have been successfully tested for pedestrian, offset-frontal and full-frontal crash safety, the most for any mass producer of cars India. The nation’s largest carmaker by sales is developing an in-house facility to conduct pedestrian and frontal crash tests at Rohtak near Delhi at a cost of Rs 3,800 crore. The facility, in which it has already invested Rs 1,900 crore and is operational, will provide support also to parent Suzuki’s global operations.
“We have conducted 35-40 different crash tests on each model and variant to check the compliance,” said CV Raman, executive director in charge of R&D.
India accounts for the most number of fatalities in road accidents. According to a World Health Organization report in 2015, about 12.5 lakh people die in road accidents globally every year and 2 lakh of these deaths happen in India.
Experts blame lack of safety regulations, disregard to compliance of existing rules as well as poor maintenance of vehicles and bad roads among the reasons for large number of road accident deaths here.
