Schoolkids flout traffic rules as cops, parents look the other way

Lucknow | Saturday | 28th July, 2018

Summary:

LUCKNOW: With police and parents turning a blind eye, students in the city are breaking traffic rules with impunity. Class X student Sameer said helmets get stolen from his school parking, so he avoids wearing one his school located on Shahnajaf Road. He said traffic police are in talks with schools to make students and their parents aware of the need to follow traffic rules.Nim said the need of the hour is to make driving licence mandatory while purchasing a two-wheeler. On why he was ‘tripling’, Irshad said, “We don’t have money to buy a car. Irshad, who had come to pick his two daughters from a school near Gulistan Colony, said he has a habit of wearing a helmet but forgot it that particular day..