Karachi has wide roads and chances of accident are comparatively few here. But probably this very fact encourages reckless driving. It has become a fashion. Motor drivers are seen moving at a breath-taking speed. Young college boys drive motor cycles and scooters without caring for their own or anybody else’s life. It is a veritable danger to school going children to old men and women who cannot cross the road quickly.
This rash driving is a regular nuisance and is responsible for fatal accidents which take place daily. Not a single day passes when we do not hear of some accident. Only yesterday a young man who was on the left side was run over by a motorcycle. The motorcyclist sped away. Speed limits are not strictly enforced. Many a time the defaulters bribe the policemen on duty and get off.
There is a dire need to fix the speed limit and deal with the offenders severely.
SYED MUHAMMAD AKBAR
Karachi
