It is well known that rear seat passengers should wear helmets and helmets can reduce the number of deaths in road accidents. However, only 2 percent of people wear a helmet when they seat their child in the back. 98 percent of people carry their pets without helmets in the city traffic.
It is the parents who are careless, neither themselves nor the children who wear helmets on two wheelers:
A Bio Medcentral public health research survey titled ‘Effective Factors of Improved Helmet Use in Motorcyclists’ found that 62,000 people take their children to school, tuition classes, walks or gardens every day. But only 2 percent of them think about safety on the vehicle. The remaining 98 percent do not believe in children wearing helmets. However, when asked in a well-known helmet showroom on CG Road in Ahmedabad, it was found that even 2 percent of the people are not the ones who teach children about road safety from an early age and make them wear helmets. We have some sense of helmet wearing among the sports cyclist kids out there. But the idea of ​​making children wear helmets in two-wheelers is not absolute.
In Gujarat, the use of helmets increased from 25 percent to 53 percent :
When parents take a two-wheeler out for a ride, the father himself wears a helmet to avoid paying a fine, but does not oblige or understand the child to wear a helmet. According to a survey conducted in the year 2019, the use of helmets in Gujarat increased from 25 percent to 53 percent. Which is at a minimum level with the high court now. After the clash with the High Court, the police have woken up again. By law, a child sitting in the rear is known as a pillion rider. But we rarely find the police penalizing the pillion rider there. Conversely, if the child is not wearing a helmet, the parents are mercifully let go.
Jyoti Sau, who lives in Chandkheda, says, ‘We only think of a child when we wear a helmet while carrying a child on the road, but when we go to a helmet shop, most of the helmet shops don’t even have vehicle helmets. Children’s two-wheeler helmets with cy helmets are not kept in stock as there is no inquiry. Out of 69635 road accident deaths in the year 2021, 14000 deaths are pillion riders i.e. back seat. As many as 1168 pillion rider children have died in India in 2019. Child pillion riders are expected to die in more than 40 accidents in Gujarat, while countless children suffer head injuries due to not wearing helmets. Certified helmet shops have increased in Ahmedabad, but due to low demand for children’s helmets, their supply is negligible.
