Stay off the roads in India

Every four minutes someone in India is killed in a road accident. Peddakunta, a very small village, has seen its male population vanish because of accidents when they try to cross the road. In the village of 35 huts and families, there is only one male adult. Thirty seven others have died, and three have left the village for good. The problem is that it is necessary for villagers to walk across the four lanes of the highway bypass if they are to collect their monthly pensions or take up employment in nearby villages.