Traffic education should be a relentless process: Mumbai CP

Nashik: Mumbai police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar said traffic education should be a relentless process up to the point that no one breaks traffic rules.
Phansalkar was in Nashik on Saturday to attend a programme organised by the Nashik First organisation at its Children’s Traffic Education Park to mark the feat of completing training for 2 lakh citizens.
Nashik First has been providing traffic education to school students, citizens, and others in general since 2015, with the aim that if motorists knew traffic rules and were aware of the repercussions of breaking them, road accidents and the deaths involved would automatically come down.
"Thousands of people die in road accidents in the state every year, mainly because they do not adhere to traffic rules. It is not the sole responsibility of enforcement agencies to make people follow traffic rules. We also need to put across the point that any serious ailment can be treated and overcome, but fatal accidents simply do not give you that opportunity. Just following traffic rules can save all those lives," said Phansalkar.
He also said that most of the motorists on the streets are attached to some organisations, and if the police and RTO can tap the organisations and ask them to ensure zero tolerance for breaking traffic rules from their employees, it could make a huge difference.
Vijay Patil, Add CP, Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau, was also present at the programme and spoke at length about the traffic awareness programmes that were conducted in the city during his tenure.