ICICI Lombard’s ‘Ride to Safety’ programme is aimed to pursue behavioural change among two-wheeler riders by raising nation-wide awareness about the rules on road safety. The programme specifically reaches out to SEC B, C and D families (lower-middle class and economically weaker sections), who were particularly vulnerable to road accidents. It is a unique program which aims at improving the road safety scenario for children. Through this initiative we focus on children with the idea of developing a sustainable community for long-term impact. By making the child the hero, through this program we target a behavioural change among children and their parents by conducting customized workshops for each audience. Furthermore, we work towards ensuring tangible change by distributing ISI-marked child helmets to children and parents who ride two-wheelers as pillion riders.
During FY2025, over 2,00,000 parents and children were made aware of road safety habits and the need for children to wear helmet as pillion riders on two-wheelers. The Company distributed total of 1,50,000 specially designed ISI marked and ICICI Lombard branded helmets to the children and their parents across 12 cities to facilitate a behavioural change, thereby facilitating the use of protective gear by the entire family, thus ensuring preventive measures for road safety. The Company has endeavoured to make the road-safety programme all-encompassing across awareness, prevention, and even rehabilitation of accident victims. Since its inception, the Company has distributed 6,00,000 helmets.
In addition to this, following activities were also conducted under Ride to Safety –
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Awareness Rallies: The Company conducted awareness rallies in collaboration with the city traffic police in Chennai, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Patna and Jalgaon. During the program, awareness was created on the importance of wearing the helmets by bike riders, fastening of seat belts by the occupants of vehicles, avoiding manoeuvring the vehicle under the influence of alcohol etc.
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Safe School Zone : The Company also created Safe School Zones around select schools in Ahmedabad and Patna. Under Safe School Zone, the school surroundings have been improved by installing traffic calming devices, cautionary/warning traffic signs and depicting road safety related art work on the school walls, to create visibility as part of the drive.
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Support to Traffic Police : The Company supported Traffic police departments of Patna by providing traffic barricades, traffic cones, baton lights, Raincoats and other equipment in order to leverage the stakeholder engagement to strengthen the relationship.
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Rehabilitation Support for Accident Victims : In FY2025, the Company supported a Rehabilitation Centre in Patna, Bihar and Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The center provided recovery support to road accident victims. This helped in completing the cycle of road safety and making the program all inclusive - from awareness to prevention, and lastly rehabilitation. During the year, 17,000+ Physio and rehab sessions were conducted to benefit 5,000+ patients.