Awareness on road safety held for students in Pebbair

Wanaparthy: Commemorating the 31st National Highway and Road Safety awareness programme in Pebbair mandal of Wanaparthy district on Tuesday, the Road Transport and Motor Vehicle Inspection (MVI) department authorities of Pebbair conducted a road safety awareness seminar to the students and advised them to follow road safety measures while driving their vehicles and urged them to avoid accidents and save their lives.

Speaking on the occasion, Road Transport officer Satish from Pebbair said that particularly youth were more venerable to accidents because of their unawareness about the road safety rules and regulations. "Road safety is very important. Particularly the students must get aware of the road safety measures and play a vital role in spreading the information to others. Besides auto-rickshaw drivers who overload, the students and their parents are also violating the road safety measures and sometimes instead of two on a bike they carry three persons against the vehicle capacity. These kinds of violations may look small, but they can lead to dangerous accidents," said Satish.

He also added that some parents were handing over vehicles to their minor children which is a violation and the parents could be punished for this. The students must also become aware of road safety measures and should abide by the traffic rules.

Adding further, Pebbair Sub Inspector Raghavender Reddy, who took part as chief guest for the awareness programme, said majority accidents are caused due to over speed and negligence of vehicle drivers. Triple riding, lack of wearing helmets, overloading in autos, tractors and other vehicles, cell phone driving, drunk and driving etc are major causes of road accidents. Mandal Education Officer Jayaramulu, teachers from Zilla Parishad High School and students participated in the awareness programme.

Follow road safety rules to avoid accidents: Special Collector Kranthi In Mahbubnagar, stressing that every day about 400 people are dying in road accidents because of not adhering to road safety regulations in the country, Mahbubnagar district Special Collector Kranthi urged the public to follow the road safety rules and avoid accidents.

The Special Collector informed that as part of the measures to avoid road accidents, the Central government had brought in new Motor Vehicle Act and road safety regulations and every year, the Road Safety Week celebrations are conducted across the country. Speaking at a programme on 31st National Highway's and Road Safety celebrations at the RTO office in Mahbubnagar, the Special Collector said that every individual must abide by the new road safety regulations to avoid accidents. Durga Prameela, Road Transport Officer, Srinivas Reddy, Motor Vehicle Inspector, Mahbubnagar and others took part in the programme.