Road Safety Programme

School students take a pledge to propagate road safety, at the programme organised at Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore. “Laziness and indiscipline”, said a gathering of about 300 school students, when they were asked what was the reason behind people not wearing helmets and seat belts.

With these words indicating their understanding of the situation on the nation’s roads, a road safety mission of the Rotary Clubs of Coimbatore and Ganga Hospital is set to make school and college students propagators of road safety in the city. After sensitising bus and autorickshaw drivers of accident prevention, the mission – named Uyir – now looks to carrying out its ‘wear helmets and seat belts’ at a micro level. It expects the students to prevent their parents from riding two-wheelers without wearing helmets or from driving a car without wearing the seat belt.

“The next time your parents leave for office, insist on their adhering to such basic traffic rules to prevent fatal accidents,” Ganga Hospital Director S. Rajasekaran told the students. On why students were chosen for the campaign, Dr. Rajasekaran explained how the Singapore Government had propagated cleanliness through the students some decades ago. This approach had turned Singapore a clean country, he said.

Launching the campaign for and “All Helmet City”, City Police Commissioner K.C. Mahali pointed out that 90 per cent of the fatal cases involved two-wheeler riders who did not wear helmets. But, some people sustained fatal injuries to the head despite wearing helmets. This was because they did not strap it on properly. Adherence to rules must be total. Only then lives could be safe on the roads. Mr. Mahali said it was not enough if the students only advised their parents to wear helmets. They must also wear a protective headgear.

Rotary District 3201Governor Baby Joseph said the college students would also be involved in the sensitisation drive. While bad roads and poor enforcement of rules were blamed for accidents, adherence to traffic rules would go a long way in preventing these. Too many young people died on the roads and this affected the productivity of the country. The Rotary would focus a great deal on road safety and there would be emphasis on wearing helmets and seat belts, he said.

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