Thrill-seeking youngsters, most of them in their teens, zipping across lanes on busy streets on their motorbikes and in cars, have become common sight in the city. Write an article on 'The young and the Reckless' in about 120 words: Input: Notes The growing manors of underage driving has reached to alarming proportion. More than 25%of the people die in road accidents. Parents, schools, police must play a major role to keep the roads safe. No parents under 18 years shall drive a vehicle.
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With the number of road accidents increasing alarmingly, the road safety measures have become indispensable. According to Road Accident Statistics India 1214 road crashes occur every day in India. 20 children under the age of 14 die every day due to road crashes in the country. One serious road accident in the country occurs every minute and 16 die on Indian roads every hour.
Keeping in mind the shocking statistics, it becomes imperative to introduce learning road safety measures at schools. Schools must make road safety measures an integral part of curriculum. The traffic police must give training of road safety measures to students. They can be taken to road safety learning parks and trained there.
They must be taught good driving skills along with tolerant traffic attitude. At schools road safety weeks and days should be observed. Road safety seminars, workshops, and other similar programmes should be conducted. They must be shown the differences between good driving model and bad driving model. They must be taught that driving on roads is not fun or a child’s play. One must be totally prepared and trained to go on roads.
Parents must be included in the road safety programmes. They must be taught not to give vehicles to their children. The traffic police must organize vehicle training sessions in schools. The students must be given demonstrations on safe driving skills.