Kakinada: East Godavari Superintendent of Police Vemuganti Naveen Chand has called upon vehicle drivers, both two-wheelers and four-wheelers, to strictly adhere to traffic rules and regulations to minimise the ever-increasing road accidents.

Participating as the chief guest at a meeting held here on Wednesday to create awareness among college students on the traffic rules and signals under the `Safar' programme, he said 90 per cent of the road accidents were taking place due to human failure but not of any mechanical failures.

Stating that mere holding a driving licence would not ensure safety and one would be known as a good driver only when he took the vehicle to the destination safely. Mr. Naveen Chand regretted that most of the youth were loosing their valuable lives only due to carelessness and negligent driving.

The Deputy Commissioner of Transport Jayakumar Reddy said that on an average 12 lakh people were getting killed in road accidents worldwide of which one lakh alone in our country. He said most of the students driving vehicles taking more than two on a two-wheeler were leading to accidents.

He felt that use of cell phone while driving was the root cause for many accidents. The Superintendent of the Government General hospital C. Hanumantharao said those killed in the road accidents were mostly below 40 years.He said in case of any accident, if first aid was given timely and admitted in a nearest hospital, the patient could be saved. He said the Government was now setting up trauma care centres near national highways. Later, the SP administered oath to the students that they would adhere to traffic rules.

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