If the Government thinks that people's sleeping on footpath in night is justified...then they should make following amendments in Motor Vehicle Act.
i) If u are driving in nights and u see ppls sleeping on footpath, then u stop the vehicle, park it on the roadside, go to ur desired workplace by walking..dis also work for ur fitness
ii) Local corporators,MLAs & MPs have every right to settle poor peoples on footpath for their votebanks. Such Roads where peoples living are ban for driving. If there is no place for settling ppls on footpath, Polticians resevers their rights to allow people to sleep on roads.
iii) if u are driving in nights (drunk or not drunk) and if u loose control of the vehicle, n u are looking to hit roadside pole or tree to stop the vehicle, instead of that u find ppls sleeping on footpath...then u have to take ur gun out and shoot yourself....
iv) don't dare to enter the road, where u see boardsign with man sleeping....
RE:New Rules for driving at Night.....
by S Kumar on Sep 06, 2007 01:30 PM Permalink
By the same logic the Government should also notify that all the vehicles must be driven on the footpath instead of on the roads! How would you justify the vehicle being on the footpath in the first place? If people were standing or walking on the footpath instead of sleeping. still you think the driver had the right to mow them down? Please understand that here the problem is not people being on the footpath (do you expect them to be in the middle of the road?) but the way poeple drive. Please don't tell me that all those behind the wheels are flawless and sober all the time. Also how do you justify the ten year old driving Qualis on to two people on the road a couple of days back in Delhi? Or the 16 year old boasting of driving the Skoda at 180 kmph in Mumbai sometime back? It is the kind of people who think anyone behind the wheel is always right and try justify their actions to be put behind the bars. Give us a break man
RE:New Rules for driving at Night.....
by S Kumar on Sep 06, 2007 01:46 PM Permalink
Exactly! So please don't blame the people for being on the footpath whether sleeping or walking. Your arguement sounded as if it was the fault of the people who were sleeping on the footpath that the car climbed on to the footpath
RE:New Rules for driving at Night.....
by S Kumar on Sep 06, 2007 04:19 PM Permalink
And those who drive on the pavement should be left out scott free?! Do you think they are sleeping on the pavement out of their choice? Or do you think they are doing so because it gives them a high? Why do you think the police wasn't acing enough to prevent the crime? Why is it that the people can't keep away from crime if the police is not after them? Here the guy who drove on the footpath is supposed to be educated enough to know what is right and wrong. He might have his own reasons for being their and the investigating agencies might have found out what they were and whether they were justifiable or not. The judgement given is based on that. Let us not try to justify him. I do understand that accidents do happen but most of them are avoidable. Here the issue is of somebody commiting a crime and he is punished under the existing laws. The people sleeping on the pavement weren't breaking any laws and if and when there a law preventing it, they will be punished. But before making such law it must be ensured that nobody will have to sleep on the pavement any more. As long as it is not done please don't blame them. If one can't drive properly he could commit the same mistake anywhere.
