Two Indian women designs 3D zebra crossing to curb speeding vehicles

Saumya Pandya Thakkar and Shakuntala Pandya designed a 3D zebra crossing

Two ladies from Gujarat have designed a 3D zebra crossing which gives the illusion of being a road block, thus succeeding in slowing down speeding vehicles. In the past decade, 1.2 million Indians have died on the roads of India. The numbers are indicative of how the country came to be the home to the world’s deadliest roads. Factors ranging from untrained drivers, lax enforcement of traffic laws to poorly designed roads, have all equally contributed towards this high number of road deaths and the statistics are anything but reassuring.
Being creative, this two women came up with preventive action on their own. Saumya Pandya Thakkar and Shakuntala Pandya designed a 3D zebra crossing. They plan to implement this concept in areas surrounding schools in Gujarat, according to a post by Logical Indian. Through this, they hope to make the roads safer for children—a necessary step considering that a 2013 statistic report suggested that 16 children die on the Indian roads daily. Several people have questioned the effectiveness of this step in the long run, and suggested that there needs to be more concrete and logical measures. Many even went on to say that this design could cause drivers to panic, resulting in more accidents while others suggested that the drivers in India are so callous that they’d run-over a real-life Zebra if it was crossing the road. Time will only tell how effective this measure is and if it is something that the other states needs to adopt as well.