Essay: Traffic Accident
Outlines:
1- Introduction.
2- The frequency of traffic accidents.
3- Causes
(I) Negligence, Ignorance and Incompetence of drivers.
(II) Overspeeding.
(III) Competition among buses and wagons.
(iv) Faulty system of Issuing driving licences.
(v) Overabundance of route permits and their Impact on traffic,
(vi) The narrowness and unsuitable condition of roads.
4- Conclusion.
"An accident is something that happens unexpectedly .to hurt a person? If you hit somebody and he hits you back and hurts you that Is not an accident because you should have expected it But If you climb a ladder, and the ladder somehow slips or gives way, and with that you, too, fall’ down and hurt yourself, that Is an accident because you did not expect it, otherwise you would not have climbed up it.
Every year millions of people fall a prey to accidents. In the United States alone, nearly 15,000 persons are killed and almost a hundred times of that are hurt In accidents every year. The biggest number of those who are .killed, about 55,000 die in road accidents of one kind or another.
In Pakistan, though no authentic figures are available; the situation Is not very different; on closer examination, we will find it even grimmer, The number of accidents that are . dally reported in the Press or on the TV and Radio, Is enough to convince you that our roads have become veritable death traps for us.
In the occurrence of road accidents, the negligence and ignorance of human beings plays a major part In Pakistan. Most of the drivers are either Illiterate or incompetent or both. Many
of them drive their vehicles without licences or on fake licences The number of institutions where training in driving equid be imparted is negligible. A law which makes it incumbent on the owners of commercial vehicles to provide retiring rooms for drivers and to get work out of them for a fixed number of hours 1 does exist on paper, but it is seldom put into practice.
Most of the drivers drive their vehicles over distances of two hundred and fifty miles. They work for long hours. This saps their energies and they become addicts -of intoxicants and , narcotics. The cumulative effect of all these things is that their senses of perception and judgment are impaired and they cause accidents. Road accidents also occur either due to negligence or over speeding of vehicles.
But drivers alone are not to blame for 1 them. Their root-cause is the system of issuing route permits. At j present, anyone who can afford to .buy a bus or a wagon is .1 automatically entitled to the route permit. Route permits are issued without ascertaining hoyv many buses or wagons can be safely plied on a certain route. The excessive and indiscriminate issuance route permits causes over-speeding because the buses and wagons are innumerable and the competition among them is very hard.
The condition of most of the roads and highways is really' deplorable. They are riot wide enough to accommodate the vehicular traffic, the-volume of which is rapidly increasing. The material used in their construction and repair is usually substandard, The process of breaking starts, sooner than expected.
The roads also play a major role in causing accidents.
The traffic police ought to start refresher courses for drivers so that they may learn the latest techniques.- A driving school should be set up in the vicinity of every major bus and „ truck stand. The service conditions of drivers and transport workers should ‘be made more attractive. At present, drivers and conductors are paid paltry, salaries but they earn huge amounts of commission. This difference between the two must end, otherwise the drivers will continue to indulge in overspeeding and causing accidents.
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