The number of road accidents in Karnataka among India s most literate and progressive states is the third highest in the country with Bangalore alone accounting for two deaths in crashes every single day and 700-800 every year. Nationally too the number looks grim. In all 1.5 million people sustain serious head injuries every year in India and 60 percent of them die before reaching a hospital. Studies prove that 60 percent of all head injury victims are in the most-productive 18 to 40 age group which translates into a staggering economic loss of up to 2 percent of our