Cops focus on increasing awareness among youths

Nashik | Tuesday | 5th February, 2019

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Now, we have decided to focus on the youth as they form the maximum number road accident victims. "He was speaking on the backdrop of the 30th Road Safety Campaign inaugurated by the regional transport office (RTO) and the city and rural police. "Singal said youths were also the ones who are found violating traffic rules. "We would be reaching out to students in over 100 colleges and would also change our approach in sensitizing them so that they understand the need for observing traffic rules. NASHIK: With increasing number of youth getting killed in road accidents, the city police have decided to undertake an extensive road safety awareness campaign across the city this year to sensitize college students.Police said that of the 217 accident victims in the city last year, over 20% were youth.Commissioner of police Ravinder Kumar Singal said, "Over the past three years, we have taken awareness drives in schools to sensitize students about the importance of following traffic rules so that they pass the message onto their parents..