The drivers are habitual of driving the vehicles at a fast speed unmindful of its dangers and consequences and it often results in accidents which consume lives of the people travelling in the vehicles which are operated at a high speed. Similarly overloading and jam packed vehicles is a dominant cause of the happening of the accidents. The bus and matador operators often indulge in overloading for making quick money and this often than not result in accidents which cause the loss of lives and also leads to injuries to many passengers. The drinking and consumption of alcohol and driving vehicles in drunken condition is a major cause of accidents. The drivers often use and take alcohol while driving and this mixing of alcohol and driving leads to accidents so often.

The shabby roads is also a cause of the accidents because some roads are damaged and are in a very bad condition and plying of the vehicles on such roads is often risky and leads to accidents which are avoidable if proper caution and alertness is shown and adopted. The rash driving coupled with the habit and practice of overtaking often causes accidents which lead to the loss of precious human lives and also injuries to many. The governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir had constituted a high powered committee to probe the road accidents and suggest the measures to avoid these rising road accidents and one does not know the fate of this committee. The present UT government should frame a committee of experts to probe the cause of increasing accidents and find ways and means to avoid increasing number of accidents in future so that the lives of the passengers are saved. There is need to implement and use traffic laws and regulations to regulate the movement of traffic especially on the national highway of Jammu-Srinagar to avoid the increasing road accidents. Those drivers who indulge in rash driving should be taken to task and their licenses should be seized and they should also be challaned and also fined to make them to adhere to traffic rules and laws so that the accidents will be at the first instance avoided or minimized so that its impact will be less on the people. In the same way those drivers who do overloading should be either be fined or challaned in the court of law for disobedience of overloading .The jam packed buses and matadors should not be allowed to ply on the busy roads so that the accidents will be avoided. Those drivers who are drunken while driving any vehicle should be penalized by way of fining them with handsome amounts so that they will not drink wine while driving. Alternatively those drivers who resort to drinking while driving should be challaned for the crime of taking wine while driving. Those drivers who use alcohol while driving expose the passengers to high risk of accidents and in most of the cases the accidents happen and take a toll of the innocent and precious lives. Therefore, as far as possible alcohol should not be consumed while driving as it more often than not led to accidents which h otherwise were avoidable but for the bad habit of drinking. So driving and drinking should both be avoided and this will go a long way to save the lives of the passengers.
The traffic cops should take stringent action against the traffic rule violators and they should make accident free journey possible by reminding the drivers and conductors of the right way to operate the vehicles. The laws only will not make significant improvement in the traffic management but there should be information and awareness about the traffic laws and regulations among the general public. Thus there is need to arrange traffic awareness programmes in schools, colleges and universities so that the people on their own will show respect and regard to traffic laws and they are made aware about the dangers and hazards of the accidents. Moreover training courses should be conducted for the drivers, conductors and other persons associated with the transport and driving. No one should be allowed to drive a vehicle without [proper license. Only government cannot make it possible to avoid the recurrent and continuous accidents but the general masses should also play their role in curbing road accidents so that the human lives which are very precious are saved. The general public should cooperate with the governmental agencies to ensure that the alarming increase in road accidents is avoided. To conclude it can be said that in the present age of science and technology road accidents have no place and these should not happen at all. For this the government, traffic department, traffic police & the executive police as well as the common masses should cooperate to ensure that the road accidents are avoided or are minimized to save the precious human lives. ( Concluded)

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