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-Manoj Padhi
Proposal of additional punishment for major traffic violations in city -By Adv. AJAY JAGGA
Ajay Jagga, Advocate, met Sh. Ram Niwas, Home Secretary and submitted the following representation. Sh. Ram Niwas appreciated and found the proposal a very novel and immediately forwarded to S.P. (Traffic Police), Chandigarh.
AJAY JAGGA H.No. 736, Sector 22-A
Advocate Chandigarh
Punjab & Haryana High Court
14th January, 2010
Sh. Ram Niwas, IAS
Home Secretary, Chandigarh Administration
Subject: Proposal of additional punishment for major traffic violations in city i.e. Attending Emergency Surgical OPDs and related wards in Hospitals for a certain period, in order to check the dangerous driving tendencies.
Respectfully submitted,
I would like to point out that it has been provided in the Citizens Charter of the Police Department of Chandigarh that the "All citizens in our democratic polity have equal stake in the rule of law". Accordingly I am making a proposal in an attempt to reduce the number of accidents in city and to save precious lives.
These days the people, especially the teens, are speeding their vehicles beyond permissible limits, running stop signs, jumping read lights, wrong side overtaking, using mobile phone while driving and breaking other traffic laws, which are resulting into higher rate of accidents causing irreparable losses to human life. Even road rage is increasing day by day. Everyday the lives are being lost due to accidents and perhaps the accidental deaths are more than the deaths due to crimes. It has also been observed that the hefty fines are not helping in reducing the number of accidents. In the teens the fines are not making much impact as it is the parents who feel punishment but not the teens.
In view of the situation mentioned above, it is proposed that the form of punishment be added/amended. In my opinion if the violators are made to spend some time, apart from the fine, in the Emergency Surgical OPDs and related wards in the Hospitals, where they can see the results of the dangerous driving, it might help in changing their tendencies of breaking traffic laws. It should prove to be learning firsthand the devastating consequences their actions can have.
Like internationally we can term it as the Reality Education for Drivers (RED) Program, which is a novel way designed to curb the motor vehicle violations by the young drivers. They should be made to hear first hand from accident victims and the Doctors, attending on them.
In any way, it is not like trying to scare the drivers, but it is like telling them about the horrible impact their careless driving can have on themselves and others. A punishment method should be designed to teach them that those risks can have tremendous and deadly consequences. Once they spend time at the hospital having a look at the accident victims, surely this should have the positive impact on the human minds which will stop them from violating the laws.
The purpose of this type of punishment is to reduce the dangerous driving practices among the public especially the juveniles. This impact can be analyzed through follow-up surveys and the driving-record checks of those offenders, who had undergone such punishment.
The idea to bring this proposal comes from a simple fact that the parliament has done its job by enacting enough traffic laws, the police has been doing all the efforts including talks on safe driving, giving lectures on it, organizing Safety week every year, spreading awareness, penalizing the violators but still it is doubtful whether the purpose of making them safe driver is being achieved or not. Even the latest trial of using the cameras at the light points is not proving very helpful. More over we can not have satellite or cameras every where. This type of punishment will give them an opportunity to see and feel the consequences of risky driving and might help in curbing the tendency of violating the traffic laws. The above mentioned proposed/suggested punishment be awarded in an offence, such as given below:
Dangerous driving/abetment
Dangerous driving – using mobile phone while driving
Driving at beyond permissible limits – over speeding
Drunken driving/abetment
Driver mentally/physically unfit
Disobeying signal of police officer regulating traffic
Violation of mandatory road signs
Violation of automatic traffic control signal – red light
Failure to lower high light beam
Driver/pillion driver without helmet/helmet no fastened/helmet not of BIS standards
Triple riding
Unauthorized use to spot light/search light/dazzling light
Smoking while driving
Driving without seat belt
School buses violating direction of the Hon'ble High Court
Auto rickshaws – overloading, without rear view mirror, passenger with driver
The list is an example of offenses where Hospital Attendance with be useful in reducing the dangerous driving tendencies.
In view of the above, it is requested that the above suggestion/proposal be considered for implementation in Union Territory of Chandigarh.
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