The Metropolitan Traffic Police
Division has stepped up action against rowdy and reckless microbus drivers,
who, the law enforcement agency and the public say, top the chart of traffic
rule violators in the Kathmandu Valley.
On-duty traffic cops booked 2,555
motorists, which included more than 1,000 microbus drivers, for flouting rules
in the past two days. MTPD data show more than 15 people have died and 216 have
received injuries in road accidents in the valley in the past two months. Five
of the 15 died in accidents involving microbuses. Last Thursday, folk singer
Manju Mahat, 28, died after the scooter she was riding got sandwiched between
two microbuses in Galkopakha. Mahat was on her way to a music studio in Jamal
when the accident occurred. Police find the rule violators up to Rs 1,000 and
warned them to correct themselves. An official said the crackdown follows
growing complaints from pedestrians and motorists against microbuses, which are
‘sending a wave of panic among road users in the city’. Microbuses speed, do
not follow road rules, overtake from the wrong side, and ferry passengers
beyond capacity, according to complainants. Microbuses are posing a threat to
road safety in the city, the official said.
नेपाली म पढ्न तल क्लिक गर्नुहोला।
नेपाली म पढ्न तल क्लिक गर्नुहोला।
However, Yogendranath Karmacharya,
president of the Federation of Nepalese National Transport Entrepreneurs, said
it is wrong to blame drivers alone for the accidents. He said ‘defiant
passengers and non-engineered roads’ also put vehicles at increased risk of
untoward incidents.
According to past two months’ data on
road accidents, negligence on the part of drivers accounts for 80 per cent of
road accidents, followed by passengers’ and pedestrians’ recklessness,
mechanical breakdown, poor condition of the roads and stray cattle.
नेपाली म पढ्न तल क्लिक गर्नुहोला।
Scary statistics
• More than 15 people have died and
216 have received injuries in road accidents in the valley in the past two
months. Five of the 15 died in accidents involving microbuses
• These buses face charge of speeding
and carrying passengers beyond capacity
• Transporters say bad condition of
roads and defiant passengers are also behind accidents
Pedestrian injured in accident
KATHMANDU: Nanu Thapa, 55, of Chapali
Bhadrakali-7, was injured when a speeding microbus (Ba 2 Kha 835) knocked her
down in Bishnu Budhanilkantha on Tuesday evening. Thapa was walking along the
road when the microbus hit her. She has received head and hand injuries, but is
said to be out of danger. Police have arrested the driver for a probe.
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