Road accidents in this country are killing more people every day than heart ailment and cancer. The traffic police has miserably failed to checkmate issuance of driving licences to underage persons. Mechanically unfit vehicles are allowed to ply on the roads with rare abandon. Private bus transport owners don’t provide sufficient rest to the drivers of their buses plying on long routes with the result that they resort to using narcotics while on the wheels in order to to keep themselves awake and fight off sleep and in the process cause road accidents.
Rash driving is the order of the day. Why heavy jail term is not being written for them in the statute book is not understandable? In addition accidents of motor bikes are also on the increase leaving its affected physically incapacitated Traffic police look the other way and rarely does challan those driving motor cycles without wearing helmets thus causing fatal head injuries to those who fall from motor cycles. Before issuing driving licence its holder is rarely taught the basic traffic rules which he is ignorant of.
