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Cops launch Gift a Helmet challenge
Prakasam district police exhorted the youth to take part in ‘Gift a Helmet’ challenge. District Superintendent of Police Bhusarapu Satya Yesubabu gifted 50 helmets to the students of four engineering colleges near here on Tuesday. He called upon the students to participate in the challenge by gifting a helmet to the important persons in their life and post a photograph of the moment on the social
Ongole: Prakasam district police exhorted the youth to take part in ‘Gift a Helmet’ challenge. District Superintendent of Police Bhusarapu Satya Yesubabu gifted 50 helmets to the students of four engineering colleges near here on Tuesday. He called upon the students to participate in the challenge by gifting a helmet to the important persons in their life and post a photograph of the moment on the social media and ask them to do the same.
About 500 engineering and management students from QIS, PACE, RISE and SSN Colleges of Engineering participated in the rally and public meeting on the traffic rules and importance of helmet organised by the police department here on Tuesday.
The police presented a few persons before the public who survived from accidents just because of using a helmet.
One, Murali of Chimakurti explained, “I was driving the motorcycle with my friend. I am driving the vehicle carefully but a granite tipper lorry hit us unexpectedly. We fell onto the roadside and my friend died on the spot with the head injury but I am saved as I am wearing a helmet.
” Murthy, a native of Karimnagar and now living in Ongole said, “If I didn’t wear the helmet the other day, I will not be here to give you the testimony. I was involved in a fatal accident at Markapur a few months ago and my two legs and one hand were broken. But I am alive as I am wearing a helmet while driving the bike.”
The SP Satya Yesubabu distributed 50 helmets to the engineering and management students. He said, “We protect the mobile phone with screen guard, pouch etc but do not take care about the head and buy a helmet. About 8,000 people died in road accidents this year in Andhra Pradesh. In them, two wheelers take more share while 90 per cent of them die with head injuries as they do not wear helmet. Though we drive carefully, most accidents occur with the fault of o
