Today's news is rife with the death of a nine year old boy and a fifteen year old girl, who fell off their father's bike, which had the father, mother and these two siblings astride. Everyone is cursing the potholes and the government and the maintenance of the Shahpur highway, where the accident occurred. Every Television news channel is highlighting the numerous potholes on the numerous roads. The truck driver that ran over the siblings when they fell off the bike, is absconding and is going to be arrested.
Not one journalist or any other person has voiced the opinion that why were four persons travelling on a two wheeler, and that too on a highway. The parents are to blame as much as the police that failed to stop them from travelling overloaded on a two wheeler. And then why does the RTO insist on two wheeler riders wearing a helmet? One can just look at children and women riding pillion behind and in front of two wheeler riders.
Mr.Tata invented the Nano car, so that nuclear families would not endanger themselves by overloading two wheelers. Specially school children, who wear their school bags, water bottles and ride pillion in groups of three and four, on two wheelers. Often the child who travels on a scooter, standing in front of the rider, crouches on half bent knees and rests his head on the handle, looking very uncomfortable.
All this does not take away the blame of the road maintenance department. Better to have a kachcha rasta than to have a pucca rasta with potholes.
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