Road accidents

No one can insure a safe return home as so many deaths are occurring owing to accidents. The reasons behind these accidents are considered to be as follows:

1. At present, we notice that drivers are not skilled and professionally trained. Most of them are not experienced enough; they only learn how to drive but they have shortage of technical or traffic knowledge. A question might arise as to how these drivers are acquiring licence without having proper training.

It is often heard that many of them are managing it by bribing the concerned authorities. About getting training from any recognised training centre, these drivers' version is that they cannot receive training from any recognised institution as these are costly.

2. In our country, vehicle owners do not spend much in maintenance unless these fall into serious trouble and this carelessness can be very costly. Usually, prior checking is never done. As a result, accidents by brake failure are a common thing.

3. There is a tendency among heavy vehicles to allow an unlimited number of passengers to board the buses for extra earning. Consequently, we often hear that many passengers are killed in overloaded buses that lose balance.

4. Many accidents take place due to pedestrians' lack of awareness.

Besides, in our country traffic policemen are so poorly trained and skilled that they don't have proper sense of directing traffic: when to stop and when to move.

5. Finally, the road condition in many places is very poor.

Roads are dug round the year.

The authorities concerned should look into the matter.