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A Road Traffic Accident (RTA) was defined as accident, which took place on the road between two or more objects, one of which must be any kind of a moving vehicle. The major causes for RTAs in our country are rapid increase in personalized modes of transport, a mixture of slow and fast moving vehicles, lack of road discipline, drunken driving and use of mobile phones while driving. Road traffic accidents (RTA) are increasing in an alarming ways. Globally nearly 1.2 million people killed in RTA during the year 2002. In India every year RTA accounts for over 1,00,000 deaths, 2 million hospitalization, 7.7 million minor injuries and an estimated loss of 55,000 cores or nearly 3 % of the GDP every year. The objectives were to assess the existing level of knowledge regarding road safety measures among high school students at Irwin Christian high school, Kolhapur.To prepare and provide Informational Booklet on road safety measures. A descriptive research design was used for the present study. Samples were selected by using Non- probability, purposive sampling technique. The result indicates that, Among 65 students Majority 47 (72.30%) were between student 15 to 16 years and 17 (26.15%) student between 13 to 14 years and 1 (1.53%) student between 17 and above. Majority of students 43 (66.15%) are male and remaining students (22) (33.84%) are female. Among 65 high school student�s 63 rides a bicycle (96.62%) and 2 does not ride bicycle. Majority of high school students knows to ride a bike (70.76%) and 19 (29.23%) high school students do not know how ride a bike. 24 (36.92%) met with an RTA and 41(63.07%) have not met with any RTA. Majority of high school students 56 (86.15%) are in average category and 9 (13.84%) are in poor category, none of the students are in good category. The knowledge scores distribution with a mean were 19.95, median 21, mode 21, standard deviation 6.35 and range were 11. Study concluded that there is an emerging need to provide information booklet on road safety measure. It is high time we should understand that all the high school students should know the need of road safety measures which will help them to prevent from road traffic accident.