Return from USA and Road Incidents

[Guest guest]

My dear friends and like minded persons

 

I am now recovering from illness after returning from USA and trying to

actively participate in routine matters. On 25th I left for Delhi to attend to

certain meetings. In the night of 25th one of the TV channels was telecasting

flash news and incidentally I had an opportunity of seeing it. It was telecasted

around 8.30p.m of 25th of August.

 

I was shocked to see a two and half year child driving a Hero Honda Motor

Cycle sitting in front of his father and independently driving the vehicle at a

higher speed on a National High Way. Unfortunately the viewers were clapping at

the incident and the incident was recorded for over fifteen minutes by the

channel. I do not see any point for appreciating the child; actually his father

should be taken into custody for prosecution for allowing such a small child to

drive a high speed vehicle like Hero Honda on a National High Way. We have

unfortunately no mechanism to arrest such trends, nor the vehicle inspectors are

that alert to stop the vehicle and verify the driving license. This is the

saddest of the stories where Government Machinery utterly failed. I do not know

whether the Vehicle Inspectors collected the records to proceed against the

Child and his father.

 

In the same channel, immediately after the aforementioned incident, one owner

of Maruti 800 vehicle drove the vehicle on National High Way. It was also a

fifteen minutes or so record which was telecasted by the same channel soon after

telecasting the aforementioned. This is a different incident where the Owner

preferred to drive his vehicle sitting in the rear seat and reading a news

paper. He had a wooden stick in his hand with which he started controlling the

steering. I do not know how and in what fashion speed was controlled. I am also

puzzled to understand as to how he is able to see the traffic on the road. When

use of Cell Phone itself is prohibited, which is considered to divert the

attention of the driver leading to accidents, I am very much worried as to why

traffic police left this incident. The driver deserves all punishment and I do

not know why he is treated as a hero in the channel.

 

These incidents clearly speak of the inefficiency of the administration. It

is not known when and how the administration gets toned up in the best interest

of the public.

 

I shall be back again soon…………………

Yours affly

HARA HARA MAHADEVA

DR P V SESHA SAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI

 

Dr P V Sesha Sai Aswamedhayaaji

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6th September 2007