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In Chennai driving two wheelers without helmet is on the rise and it is not safe
Posted on: 20/Mar/2018 10:53:17 AM
Whether a person’s dharma saves their lives or not but wearing helmets save their lives is true.
Chennai is a metropolitan city with huge population. People use different modes of transport to reach their destination is known. It is now said that many people travel by their two wheelers in Chennai and that too without wearing a helmet.
It was in the month of June in the year 2015 the Madras High Court made it compulsory for those driving two wheelers to wear helmets. This rule came into being because many people lost their precious lives in accidents while driving two wheelers.
It is shocking that in Chennai in the year 2017 as many as 3.41 lakh cases were booked by the traffic police for not wearing helmets while driving.
In the month of January and February in 2018, the number of cases booked by the traffic police for not wearing helmets by the two wheelers is staggering 55,000. This number is twice the violations recorded during the same period last year.
Section 129 of Motor vehicles Act 1988 is being violated at will and it is known that as per this law wearing helmets is compulsory for the two wheeler riders.
In the road accidents 70 percent killed were two wheeler riders driving without helmets and head injuries have killed 90 percent of these people. This was confirmed by a senior police official.
Additional commissioner Chennai city traffic police Mr A. Arun expressed his thoughts and said helmets bring down fatality in the accidents involving two wheeler riders.
Mr R. Sudhakar who is the joint commissioner Chennai city traffic police spoke about how NGO was engaged by the police and how this NGO would play an important role in finding the main cause for the accidents involving the two wheelers.
Dr. Dekal who is professor and head of the department of forensic medicine at Saveetha Medical College spoke about how when a rider without helmet lands on the road his brain slams against his skull and it would lead to bruise or blood vessels tearing or damage to nerves and then finally to the death.
