Tag: road safety

Make Dashcam a Must. Keep Indian Roads Safe for Driving.

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?

One death every three minutes. 462 a day. 1.68 lakh died in road accidents in India in the year 2022 alone. It’s a record high for the country.

And the numbers continue to rise. What are the reasons?

Some attribute it to human error. Some blame it on the bad quality of city roads. And a lot has got to do with the poor maintenance of vehicles.

Let me do something in my own life so that this human error doesn’t cost a life on Indian roads. Any longer. 

Make dashcam a mandatory requirement in vehicles plying on roads. 

Sit with the transport authorities in the country and emphasize the importance of employing a dashcam in vehicles. 

Those who get tickets on more than one occasion for traffic violations should appear in a hands-on training class with the specially appointed driving schools. They should be explained how to avoid situations that cause accidents on the basis of dashcam footage from their vehicles.

Let’s keep roads in India safe for driving. I shall kick-start a campaign in this regard. Today. 

Break the Law. Help kids.

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

Yes.

Not just once but many times, I’m afraid.

While waiting to cross the road in busy traffic, I can see how desperate the school children wait to get across so that they reach school on time.

That’s when I think I shall quickly hop in, stick my hand out and stop vehicles on either side of the road. So much so that mom and kids get across to the other side.

Call it evil intentions?

This is India and nobody here cares to halt at the lights and allow pedestrians to use the zebra-crossing. No cops manning this junctions. Poor kids.

I don’t know if any law allows me to do that, but I do it quite often.

Call it unintentional. But it’s a huge help with all good intentions.

Kids thank me for the novel gesture and that makes my day. All days in a week.