Wear helmet or pay Rs1000 fine: Road safety drive to the next level
Wearing helmet riding bike has become necessary now; think of it as it is for safety of rider.
(Web Desk) – Road safety is merely a dream in Pakistan. No one bothers to take it serious indeed. Keeping the rising number of accidents into consideration and continuous violations, Lahore High Court (LHC) has asked the traffic police to make the citizens strictly follow traffic rules and regulations. In this regard, the key order which has been given is to make people use helmet at the time of riding their bikes.
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Muhammad Ashfaq in his report from Lahore explores in his report the strict action the court wanted traffic police to take against those who do not use helmet. Bike riders, look out for riding bikes without helmet, now things have changed; traffic laws are necessitated to be implemented in true letter and spirit, and most important of all this is for their own safety.
After the order of Justice Akbar Ali Qureshi, the awareness campaign was initiated for ten days, as the date of this campaign expires, now the law will take its way and strict actions will be taken whoever does not follow the order. Rs1000 as a fine will be imposed on everyone who rides bike without helmet. Interestingly, the people generally have appreciated this step and demanded the authorities to act upon it at the earliest.
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One of the citizens this is quite a good step for the safety of the people while anther went on to say that God forbid if there occurs any accident, helmet saves us from getting injured seriously.
Pakistan is quite infamous place when it comes to road accidents. Though people blame the government for doing nothing to actualize the road safety rules, but indeed most of the accidents are the result of drivers’ negligence. It is high time to take road safety a crucial goal to achieve not only by the government but also by the people.
