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Friends of life

After Friends of Police, the city will have Friends of Uyir to prevent accidents, writes V.S. Palaniyappan

The Coimbatore City Police are planning to create a team of volunteers for every police station – Friends of Uyir (life) – with the objective of preventing road accidents. The police already have the Friends of Police to help it in maintaining law and order, crowd control and traffic regulation. The City Police Commissioner, C.K. Gandhirajan, mooted the idea after the roaring success of FoP. FoU will involve themselves in all measures related to road safe ty with a view to turn the city roads into accident free. Mr. Gandhirajan said that the preliminary works to constitute the body will be worked out in consultation with the District Collector, Neeraj Mittal, and Dr. S. Rajasekharan of Ganga Hospitals. The hospital already has a project “Uyir” focusing on the medical care and trauma care during the golden hour for accident victims. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), S. Manoharan; Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic Planning and Development), A. Amir Basha; and two Assistant Commissioners of Police are already on the job of working out the modalities for forming the team.

Initially, 20 FoU are planned in the city. The police have started analysing previous accident cases to bring out a chart indicating the fatal accident prone stretches and the causes that led to the accidents. FoU would educate the motorists that majority of the accidents were man made happened because of human error and they are preventable.

FoU would inculcate in motorists a sense of disciplined driving and riding habits. It would create awareness among the motorists on the major causes for fatal accidents. It would carry out campaigns along with the police against carrying more than the permitted number of passengers, speeding, stop line and yellow line violations, jumping signals and other violations such as entering ‘No Entry’ roads.

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