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Traffic Police And Road Accidents In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 2, 2013: in Bhaktapur yesterday, a motorbike hit a woman near her house. The motorbike disappeared before she could figure out what had happened to her. Her husband reported the police. The case was ‘hit and run’: the most heinous crime in the road accidents. She went for x-ray and other medical treatment at her own cost.
The traffic police was supposed to bring the motorbike rider to justice but the police did not even make sure the bike rider pays for the medical treatment of the woman he had accidentally hit and run away from the scene.
You find the traffic police check the drivers’ licenses, and bluebooks means the history book of a vehicle at various places. Sometimes, you find more than once get checked on the same road. However, if you don’t possess a license you can get away paying 300 rupees. But if you have a license the police take some time to read the license.
The practical test given by the traffic police is so hard hardly a few persons get passed the test. If everybody driving vehicles in the Kathmandu, had passed the practical test, the road accidents would have been rare.
Yesterday on the way to Bhakatapur, we were just behind a taxi standing at the traffic light on the crossroads of Gaushala. The taxi driver had hard time to keep the vehicle in control. The vehicle was moving back scaring us. Then, I thought this man had surely not gone through the hardest possible driving test in front of the Singhadurbar. If he had passed the driving test he would not have a trouble of controlling the vehicle on the slightly upward inclined road. The traffic police need to answer how the taxi driver got the driving license.
