New Legislations For Drivers

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The Transport Ministry is to introduce tough legislations including increased prison terms and fines on drivers and compensation for victims of accidents, in an effort to stem ever increasing road accidents and resultant deaths and injuries, Transport Minister Kumara Welgama said.

Minister Welgama told the media that road accidents are becoming an increasing social, economic and health issue with five to six deaths from around 150 road accidents occurring a day in Sri Lanka.

“A study has revealed that in the thirty year period from 1977 to 2007, over 40,000 people have died from road accidents, in addition to thousands of others being maimed and families of road accident victims becoming destitute. The loss consequent to these accidents is exceeding Rs. 100 billion”, he said.

Presidential advisor, Mano Wijeratne said a strategic approach on national level is necessary to bring down the incidences of road accidents as death from road accidents has become the number one killer of healthy people in Sri Lanka in the peace time

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[Ripper]

good initiative i suppose.

as much as everybody love to blame drivers...especially when either pedestrians or cyclists are hit... most of our pedestrians behave like absolute morons. People jay walk right in front of coppers when a designated crossing is just few metres away...

aerial bridges are hardly used and pedestrian crossing lights are not used or respected...

We have a lot to improve on those things too...

as usual...governments will only apply a surface solution to a problem that has deeper roots

[Chooti Putha]

  On 5/7/2011 at 3:18 PM, Ripper said:

good initiative i suppose.

as much as everybody love to blame drivers...especially when either pedestrians or cyclists are hit... most of our pedestrians behave like absolute morons. People jay walk right in front of coppers when a designated crossing is just few metres away...

aerial bridges are hardly used and pedestrian crossing lights are not used or respected...

We have a lot to improve on those things too...

as usual...governments will only apply a surface solution to a problem that has deeper roots

Totally agreed with reaper...a better set of rules has to be set in place for pedestrians & it has to be carried out properly too.... Recently while one of my friends were in traffic a guy had gotten off da bus right onto his motorcycle...both of them had fallen....

[AfzGTR]

  On 5/7/2011 at 3:18 PM, Ripper said:

good initiative i suppose.

as much as everybody love to blame drivers...especially when either pedestrians or cyclists are hit... most of our pedestrians behave like absolute morons. People jay walk right in front of coppers when a designated crossing is just few metres away...

aerial bridges are hardly used and pedestrian crossing lights are not used or respected...

We have a lot to improve on those things too...

as usual...governments will only apply a surface solution to a problem that has deeper roots

thats very true!.....some pedestrians act like maniacs!