Driving without helmet in India and implications

We had a couple who were admitted in our hospital. the husband and wife both sustained head injuries. The husband was wearing a helmet but did not apply the strap of the helmet to keep in place in case of accident. He needed intensive care and surgery which saved him.

The wife did also have head injury, only the difference is that she died. Because she did not wear any helmet. She sustained severe head injuries. It was interesting to note that the pillion riding women exempted from wearing the helmet.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-01/delhi/31113321_1_helmet-uniform-law-exemption

This is the gist of the article in the times of india

"‘Helmet relief in sync with Central law’
TNN Mar 1, 2012, 03.05AM IST


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wearing helmet|Motor Vehicles Act
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Wednesday informed the Delhi high court that it has framed rules exempting women from wearing helmet only in compliance with the central law - the Motor Vehicles Act.

Filing an affidavit in response to a PIL challenging the exemption to women, the state transport department told a bench of acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw that the central law had made it optional for a woman riding pillion to wear a helmet. The bench then directed the petitioner to go through the government's affidavit and file his objections by April 25."

Please go through the above link which says that the central law makes it optional for women to or not to wear helmets.

May be the value of life for their wifes is not as much as their own in the husbands' point of view.

May be the wifes themselves have to take care of themselves.

Or just in seat belt case, the driver used to be penalised for any passengers for not wearing seat belts. May be we have to ask the law to be modified so that the driver of the two wheeler pays double fine for himself and the wife at the back

Or may be the wife should be penalised separately

Or more importantly the central law by the Indian Government needs to be reviewed. Otherwise the legal system cannot impose and the police cannot enforce helmet wearing for women at the back.

Or it is time for the womensfolk to start their own lobby

My friend when he sees a two wheeler driving crazily, he stops and tells the pillion rider of the two wheeler, " please dont go with him, he will kill you sooner or later"

Funny but true

think and start your own lobby for your friends and families' ladies and wives

Regards

Chockalingam