Follow traffic norms, stave off fatal mishaps, urges Superintendent of Police

Kurnool: Superintendent of Police, Ake Ravi Krishna said several people are losing their lives in road accidents. On an average 600 people have lost their lives and around 2500 are injured and are leading a pathetic life by losing limbs in the district. This is the result of rash driving, driving after consuming alcohol and not following traffic norms, he stated.

On an average 600 people lost their lives and around 2500 are injured and are leading pathetic lives after losing their limbs in the district

Recalling his first appointment as Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) at Wanaparthy in 2009, Ravi Krishna said that a road accident in which four 10th class students lost their lives moved him a lot. Some students boarded an auto were said to be going to attend 10th exam has hit an RTC bus on the opposite direction.

Four students in a pool of blood and their hall tickets all blotted with blood were seen scattered around. This accident happened due to the driver who was in an inebriated condition, he stated.Another accident that occurred at Munagala, between Kodada and Surayapeta, left him with an indelible impression that he could save a driver and after surviving for four days he died.

Narrating about the accident, Ravi Krishna said that two vans hit with each other in which a driver was brutally stuck and was fighting for life. After we reached there, the driver asked my phone to call his family and was saying to care of his children without revealing about the dire situation he is in.

However, we saved him after calling a cutter and shifted to hospital. He survived for four days and later breathed his last, He said that these are all the accidents that are taking place are due to negligent driving, not following traffic norms or driving after consuming alcohol.

He also said that he has come to known that several students in town are known to be doing snake driving. Repeating the aage, Ravi Krishna that speed may thrill but should know that it will kill, so suggested the students to start early, drive slowly and reach safely, this would be safe and will harm no life. Several reforms have been made in traffic department; if a driver is found drunk and drive he would be punished with the laws in force.

Ravi Krishna also said that students should not involve in ragging. He said anti ragging squad committees would be formed at every college and directed the college management staff to form them. He wants to see the district to be ragging and accident free district. The college management is responsible if ragging is observed in the college. Stringent action would initiate on them who indulge in ragging.

He stated all these to students during a traffic awareness program held at St Joseph Degree College on Saturday. Traffic department, Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Rama Chandra, St Joseph College Principal Showryl Reddy, Circle Inspectors, Maheshwar Reddy, B Krishnaiah, Motor Vehicle Inspector (MVI), Sekhar Rao, Reserved Sub Inspectors and college students were present.