Indeed, road accident is one of the scariest things anybody can have in life. I feel that our focus should be on eliminating the number of accidents in addition to implementing laws. Talk Shows like Satyamev Jayate are a big inspiration for us in which its last episode was based on road accidents.
I would like to say we don't need a new law on road safety to protect all categories of road users including pedestrians until we start to follow the current ones. New rules are easier to make than to follow and I think it is a problem on both ends. As citizens, we break them and as Govt., we don’t enforce them strictly enough. So there should be an effort from both the sides to come to a fruitful result.
Govt. should implement e-governance to road transport department and fool proof monitoring mechanism in vehicle which will be constantly monitoring the activities of the driver including the speed at which he is driving the vehicle and will be keeping a record of the activities. If this can be implemented as a law then casual driving can be penalised easily. While Govt. officials are not strict about it, people get more used to breaking them without thinking how it is going to affect others and knowing they are not going to get in trouble with it or even if they do they will get out of it through money power or "high contacts". So I think small things like this can help in a big manner because if one car jumps a red light and all other follow...same goes if one car stops in middle of the road the cars behind willHAVE TO STOP.
Most of the road accidents occur because of rash driving, usually parents give bikes and cars to their children at a very early age. I would say students should be given road safety classes from an early age... road safety and driving classes as well as first aid should be incorporated into the school curriculum!! Traffic violators should be heavily penalized and their licence should be revoked the first time they are caught.
If a jumbo jet full of passengers would crash every day in India, it would not be acceptable at all. However, we have equivalent number of fatalities on roads every single day and nobody bothers. We should start fighting for this cause especially on our national highways where one-third of the road fatalities take place. At least we can start from national highways.
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I would like to say we don't need a new law on road safety to protect all categories of road users including pedestrians until we start to follow the current ones. New rules are easier to make than to follow and I think it is a problem on both ends. As citizens, we break them and as Govt., we don’t enforce them strictly enough. So there should be an effort from both the sides to come to a fruitful result.
Govt. should implement e-governance to road transport department and fool proof monitoring mechanism in vehicle which will be constantly monitoring the activities of the driver including the speed at which he is driving the vehicle and will be keeping a record of the activities. If this can be implemented as a law then casual driving can be penalised easily. While Govt. officials are not strict about it, people get more used to breaking them without thinking how it is going to affect others and knowing they are not going to get in trouble with it or even if they do they will get out of it through money power or "high contacts". So I think small things like this can help in a big manner because if one car jumps a red light and all other follow...same goes if one car stops in middle of the road the cars behind willHAVE TO STOP.
Most of the road accidents occur because of rash driving, usually parents give bikes and cars to their children at a very early age. I would say students should be given road safety classes from an early age... road safety and driving classes as well as first aid should be incorporated into the school curriculum!! Traffic violators should be heavily penalized and their licence should be revoked the first time they are caught.
If a jumbo jet full of passengers would crash every day in India, it would not be acceptable at all. However, we have equivalent number of fatalities on roads every single day and nobody bothers. We should start fighting for this cause especially on our national highways where one-third of the road fatalities take place. At least we can start from national highways.
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