New Delhi, Feb 21 (UNI) Accepting that there was inadequate registration of accident data at police stations, the government has come out with a new format which would be adopted by police in all states. This new format has been designed to capture all relevant information like accident identification and location, road condition, vehicles involved and victim details. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways had constituted an expert committee to review the format for reporting of road accidents and submitted its recommendations which were accepted by the Ministry. Addressing a press conference here today, Senior Adviser of Transport Research Wing and Chairperson of the committee Kirti Saxena said FIRs at police station suffered from under reporting of data from accident site, which were inaccurate and incomplete. She said Section A contains accident identification details like location, vehicle type and other information. Section B captures road conditions and features like culvert, gradient and pothole. Section C would capture details about vehicle – both motorized and non motorized, overloading and others. Section D would capture traffic violations by drivers and Section E would capture details about persons other than drivers involved in the accident. The form is simple and would be easy for the police persons at thana levels to understand and fill up. It also minimizes subjective elements, she said. Besides, the committee had also developed a set of corresponding annual road accident data Reporting Format consisting of 17 forms in which the states would be required to furnish the annual road accident data to Transport Research Wing (TRW) of the Ministry within one month of the completion of a calendar year. More UNI RBE SHK 2000