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| New Year celebrations: Rash and rowdy drivers - a headache for the traffic personal | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 29
With the year 2007 coming to close with marked celebrations the traffic police is too preparing to clamp down the rash and rowdy drivers especially the speedy bikers. Sources said the traffic police is all set to pin the risky drivers on road with heavy boozes with an excuse its new year Yaar!
This despite a hesitating claim that within the department that they are only experimenting speed guns that yet have not yet commissioned properly to put a curb on the speedy driving. To speak up here the Generation X in Jammu - what they think about the traffic police's clampdown on the city's ‘need for speed’
The laws and fines for speeding are different depending on what sort of road you are driving - e.g. highways, bylanes etc. We, however, hardly find offenders in the smaller streets. There is just so much congestion there, it’s very difficult to speed but people usually speed on empty roads that only happens late at night on the highways and wide open roads especially when someone tries to over take or horn honk the front drivers. ‘Speeding will be a big problem on December 31. And drivers mostly will take chances on flyover and wide open roads at night after the New Year celebrations.
Gandhinagar, Trikutanagar, Residency Road will see more speedsters than other areas because of celebrations being arranged in prominent hotels of the city. ‘In fact, cars drivers often try to speed more than bikers do and due to their size they are far more dangerous to pedestrians and other vehicles on the road, said Kuldeep Kumar a bank employee.
To stop these errant motorists we need to be stricter but it has been observed that majority of people are casual about rules. Thus instead of asking for more ‘harsh rules’, drivers need to focus on abiding the existing traffic norms by them for safe driving, says SSP Traffic Shafaqat A Wattali.
Ignorance to the rash driving by the drivers is not our fault, he adds and continues that it is pity and a crude truth of the driving on the roads that majority of the people are not aware that rash driving is a serious offence. ‘They are very casual about the rash driving and enjoy it just like kite flying without knowing the hazards that one missed second would land them in trouble, he says.
But the argument that we aren't aware of the law can't be held as an excuse every time they are held instead everyone with a valid license is expected to know the traffic safety rules, he asserts. Further, he adds that most offenders are the bikers and are in the age group of within 20 to early 40s and it is obligatory for every one to drive safe on the roads not for the their own safety but as a duty to nation and one’s family as every life counts for the nation and an individual family as well. |
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