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Reminding motorists on road safety

PHOTO: S. SIVA SARAVANAN

Noble mission:City Police Commissioner C. Sylendra Babu (fourth right) affixing a road safety awareness sticker on a two-wheeler at LIC Signal in the City on Friday during a drive organised by The Hindu and Savithri Photo House. Director of Savithri Photo House N.N. Parasram (third right), Chief Traffic Warden A. Mahesh (second right) and Deputy Commissioner of Police N. Kamini (right) are in the picture. —

Coimbatore: As part of the ongoing road safety week celebrations, The Hindu and Savithri Photo House launched an initiative to affix stickers containing road safety messages on vehicles.

City Police Commissioner C. Sylendra Babu launched the drive at the Avanashi Road – LIC Junction on Friday morning in the presence of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) N. Kamini and Chief Traffic Warden A. Mahesh. Assistant Commissioners of Police Anbazhagan and V. Chellam took part.

Regional General Manager of The Hindu D. Rajkumar and Director of Savithri Photo House N.N. Parasram took part in the event.

The stickers carried messages such as “Wear helmets for your own safety”, “Avoid drunken driving”, “Obey Road Rules” and “Avoid using cellular phones while driving/riding”. The objective of the exercise was to have a constant reminder on road rules affixed on the vehicles, so that motorists are reminded of the necessity to follow them for the sake of their safety as well as that of fellow road users.

The Hindu and Savithri Photo House volunteers were deployed at a number of traffic signals for affixing the stickers.

Launching the drive, Mr. Babu said that accidents and loss of lives on roads were primarily due to scant regard for road rules.

If every motorist takes a vow to abide by the rule and display a culture of compliance, the city roads could become accident-free and loss of lives could be prevented.

He said that there was a need for educating the motorists on the fact that compliance to road rules should come on its own for the sake of ending loss of lives and personal safety rather than abiding by rules for the fear of enforcement.

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