Travel and be safe in India: Relative positioning of yourself with others in traffic and in life

Everything is relative, true or false?

In life to be rich, you have to have poor people

for you to be happy to with a big house, you need smaller houses

for you to be smartly dressed and be noted, people around need to be less smart.

Imagine if everyone has a uniform and look alike like the many Rajinis in Enthiran, you are not going to have handsome, beauty and ugly as descriptive words, eh!

now that you are getting the gist of what this is about, let us go to the relativity

Einstein described Relativity in space and time. Imagine that every vehicle on the road are going at exactly at 80 KM or miles per hour, then you cannot find a rude driver or a slow moving vehicle with an elderly couple you are going to be cross with!.

Hence you have speeding vehicles and slow moving or static vehicles or  objects.

Now let us get to accidents on the road which is where i am getting to! where you see yourselves at faster or slower relatively and hence increase the risk of an accident.

The accidents happen when two objects collide with each other when they are in different speeds to each other. hence for one to be as safe as possible, then you need to be away from contact with another body or vehicle which is in different speed to yourselves. Suppose you are driving in a car at 100km speed, then a lorry at 60 or a BMW at 140 Km or a static lorry parked in the main road, or a dog which comes in the middle of the road are all hazards.

If you remember my blog on hazards and risks, the risk of an accident increases when you have an hazard on your way.

but wait, you cannot avoid the hazard altogether. our roads in India are full of them. it could be a dog or a bull or a parked lorry or slow moving tractor or the crazy driver who horns and drives too close to you in the Scorpio or a bus who decides to drive towards you on the wrong side of a national highway!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are following so far, you would have understood that neither going fast or slow  is safe, to reduce the risk of an accident. in other words, going slow or be static is not safe in roads. remember the polio patient of mine who was static at a traffic light in red got hit by a moving lorry. He thought it was safe to stop at red signal but relative to the lorry behind,  he did the wrong thing by being static!

Hence, keep yourselves or your vehicle in equal or near equal in speed relative to the object or the other vehicles on the road!

this is one way of saying "keep your speed according to the traffic around you or the object near you" in a complicated way! In other words if everyone is doing a speed of 60, reduce your speed to near 60 until you get out of their way or they get out of your way

Or if you are near a static object reduce your speed to near 0 Km to avoid a crash

Or if the road is clear, then hit the pedal!!!!, but make sure your Vehicles brakes and tires are in top notch! and you are sober to use them!!!!

Best Wishes

Chockalingam

Wear Helmet to protect your brain, but wear a proper helmet properly

We have a 22 year old lad fighting for his life since he has a severe head injury. He was wearing a helmet but did not do the strap and hence the helmet flew off allowing his head to be hit directly. In short he is not likely to make it and it is really upsetting to know that he was a very nice person with the whole life ahead of him.

Is it not time that the Government stops us spending so much of the money to rescue these injured patients which in lots of the situations turn out to be futile. The legislation to ensure safety measures such as helmet and seat belt have to become mandatory. The cost in using such safety measures is trivial comparing to the lakhs of rupees the 22 year old family is spending

Who else can take responsibility apart from the individual and the government.? All private organisations and corporate bodies can make it madatory for the individuals to wear helmets. one such company will not allow its employees into their campus if they are not driving in with the helmets. good.

It was indeed funny to see a family travelling in a two wheeler with the driver and the head of the family wearing a helmet and the wife and the two children not wearing any. it is indeed not possible for all the four of them to wear a helmet any way as the four should not be travelling in a single two wheeler!

What does the above situation tell you. As the breadwinner and the father of the family, my head and life is very important, but my wife and the children!!!!  mmmmmmmmmm  don't bother!!!!!!!!!!

It is time to pause and think eh!!!!!!!!!!!!

With Regards

Chockalingam

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


Tags:
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