Gurgaon: The city is under Kuncian for most of 2020, but quiet streets seem to have pushed more children underage to try to drive and take their cars to spin even though they don’t have a license.
The number of challans issued by the Gurgaon Traffic Police because the underage driving jumped more than five times in 2020 to 165, from only 30 in 2019.
Until July this year, 25 Challans had been issued.
Last August, Finance Executive Alok Gupta died of an accident near Cyber City when Ford Ecosport was driven by a small child appearing out of place from the side of the road and destroyed it to death.
The minor seems to lose control and the SUV has jumped over the middle threshold to crash directly to the Gupta, who will go to Noida at the Harley Davidson Bike.
Gupta’s wife and friends had conducted a firm campaign against underage driving and received extensive support, but Data Challan showed the magnitude of the challenge.
The city had been intermittent intermittently under the second two years, it implies that the numbers only contributed several months in this period.
Unlike cases of traffic signal violations, underage drivers cannot be seen through CCTV cameras.
As a result, the authorities on the road are mostly responsible for detecting them.
Under the provisions of the action of motorized vehicles, if a driver is underage, their parents who have a vehicle can be ordered and fined.
Meanwhile, underage children can face trial under the Law of Adolescent Justice.
Traffic police said most minors encouraged their parents’ cars.
“As soon as we identify underage drivers, we check the vehicle registration certificate, which is usually in the name of their parents, follows what we call parents to place.
We usually issue a Challan of Rs 5,000 with a strict warning to their parents,” said Inspector Naveen Kumar, who is responsible for Chanthaning (East) branch.
When Tii asked DCP (traffic) Ravinder Singh Tomar.
The steps taken to curb underage driving in the city after the death of Gupta, he said the special drive against the driver was carried out regularly, along with routine examinations at the crossroads of traffic.
“We have also increased the number of speed interceptor vehicles (which are equipped with cameras to record violators) from six to eight after the incident,” DCP added.
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