Click to play videoNew Delhi: Returning from a Saturday night-out after drinks, six streetsmart youngsters mowed down six people sleeping on a footpath in Bandra.
While quick action has been taken into the incident, the incident has again brought to light the issue of reckless driving by the youth.
In another incident of youth recklessness, racing with each other in Gurgaon to show off, they almost killed 27-year-old Dilip Kumar – a guard – in may 2006. And the worst part was that the drivers were all Class X students.
The problem therefore, is not just drunk driving, but careless youth lacking supervision.
For instance a 16-year-old girl, who does not have a license, loves to drive. And her parents don't even know that she drives the car. She leaves for school in the morning with her driver and switches seats later. She says there is nothing wrong in what she does because she knows how to drive and there is always a driver beside her. She has no fear of being caught.
"I don’t think they will because I obey all traffic rules. They (parents) know I can drive, but don’t know that I drive to school," said the girl.
Keeping Bandra incident in mind, there should be serious deterrents to under-age driving. One must realise that this is a team effort, involving not only the police, but parents and schools as well.
When Tagore International School Principal Madhulika Sen noticed incidents like these in her school she decided to go for a strict rule.
"We've told the children, we'll hand them over to the police, schools have to be very particular," said Madhulika Sen.
Delhi has already seen close to 2000 challans this year against minor drivers, which just goes to show that in the metros the incidents of negligent teen driving are on the rise. And it's high time that someone hit the brakes.
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