Have Another Day

Road Safety a.Read the following passage. Whose fault? . A - year - old BCA student met with an accident − his bike rammed a tractor parked on the roadside that had iron rods sticking out.

It was dark and around midnight. Arjun did not see the rods. They pierced his eyes, severely injuring his brain. A passerby saw him lying on the road and informed the family.

. Even today that telephone call is vivid in Arjun’s father’s mind. That call changed everything. Arjun was his only child.

The family rushed to the hospital, where Arjun had been taken. Doctors told them that he was brain dead. Even though Reading his heart was beating and he was breathing, he was in fact dead. The precious life of a young man was lost!

. Why did this happen, even after the government has banned vehicles from carrying rods, pipes or any protruding material beyond the body frame? The road transport ministry has deleted the provision in the Central Motor Vehicle Rules that allows protrusions up to one meter.