Fatalities from road accidents have increased as people don’t fear law: Gadkari

Gadkari said there are four factors which can help reduce road accidents — road engineering, automobile engineering, enforcement of law and people’s education. “The biggest problem of the society is neither people have respect for the law, nor they have fear of it. There are problems like people don’t stop at red signals, don’t wear helmets… 30,000 people die only because they aren’t wearing helmets. I have been a victim myself, my leg was broken at four places in an accident when I was the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra,” said the minister.

“I have no hesitation in accepting this but distressed that despite trying hard, there have been 1.68 lakh road accident deaths this year. A large number of these deaths are because there has not been strict implementation of rules on roads…without cooperation from public representatives, media or society, this is not possible. We have increased fines too but people don’t follow rules,” he said.