Most of the deaths and critical injuries reported in two-wheeler accidents are that the riders do not wear helmets and to increase awareness among the two wheeler riders, city traffic police organised helmet awareness campaign on Tuesday.
The traffic police have come up with a unique effort in this direction. Taking a step further by aiming to curb the death rate of two wheeler rider in accidents, the traffic police organised helmet awareness campaign and those found wearing helmets were provided with chocolates, encouraging maintaining the practice of wearing helmet. Similarly, during the campaign around 80 two-wheeler riders who were found without helmets were shown informational and educational films regarding traffic management and rules and impacts of violating them.
This way, the cops did not impose any fine on the vehicle owners, but they had to spend around two hours at the police control room watching documentary films.
Around 246 vehicles riders were found without vehicles. The traffic police have appealed to the two-wheeler riders for wearing helmets as it could save their life during accidents.
In most of the cases, it has been observed that the serious injuries in the head prove fatal for the victims and are one of the most common reasons of death for two-wheeler riders in accident.
Roshanpura and Police control room squares have been marked as ‘no tolerance point’. Other squares which were also monitored were Board Office square, Jyoti talkies square, Bharat talkies square, Bhopal talkies square, Bus stand square, Ret ghat trisection and 10 number trisection.