Horrible.

This incident shows the real face of the
Indian Police system which is infected by the pandemic Corruption virus.

Crane Driver and the concerned traffic
cops of Gurgaon are responsible for the tragic death of biker Bhupendra Bhushan Gaur,a Birla Sunlife’s agile official at the Hero Honda crossing on October 15.

Government should pay Rs. 15 lakh to
the victim’s parents within a week as
a compensation.And are accused must be
suspended without any mercy.

May his soul rest in peace !

Congrats. Mr Ritesh Ranjan for excellent
article.

Keep it up. Good Luck.

Sincerely
Ranjan Kumar Amritnidhi

A death is a death and a permanent loss to someone, whether he is a biker or a small child falling into a borewell or falling into an open manhole.
And the govt compensates such deaths because it is free money in their hands. We do not even hold anyone responsible for such lapses and the counter keeps clicking. I feel that involved agencies that are responsible for sinking the borewells, drivers/owners of erring vehicles whether private/company/govt owned, should be made to pay for compensation to the victims family.
It is quite painful to note that army is called out for assistance when there is much better and latest equipment available with civil agencies. Maybe because the army does not charge them anything and render selfless service. No one is bothered about the loss/depreciation of the equipment and loss of man-hours that the army suffers.
Coming to driving habits, should we blame only the larger vehicles involved in accidents. We all know that all drivers are in a hurry all the time, smaller vehicles zigzag through the traffic, whether there is space available or not. With the high-headedness of the drivers the temperatrue run very high. And all drivers feel that nothing can happen to them (before the accident). Now, who can we blame for a road accident. If I cant maintain your cool, I have no business to be on the road. I always drive keeping in mind that I alone can save myself. How is anyone else interested in my life.
So, all readers are requested to drive carefully making sure that even other’s mistakes do not get you. A very tall order in todays world, but, there is no shorter one.
All our heartfelt sympathies to the Gaurs and a prayer for Bhupender’s soul to rest in peace.

Thanks Mr. Ranjan for the nice addition to my article, in form of the comment.

I would like to fight the system with similar, or may be better articles.

Its the accident prone area in Gurgaon like many other places in same city.

Ritesh,

It was indeed a sad that such an incident happened. May his soul rest in peace.

We must understand one thing. Mere expression of anger does nothing. Merely fixing responsibility does not change society. We must change and become an instrument of change. Each one of us. Only then he society shall become responsible. Only then the police and govt will become sensitive. Are we disciplined. The crane driver is an Indian as much as we are. When we see an accident and lose a close person, we react with anger that the driver was over speeding and moving in the wrong lane. But many amongst us break rules with impunity. Till the educated people become disciplined, they have no right to expect others to be disciplined.

Hope the educated amongst us realise this and stop breaking rules.

On second thought. You are right Gaurav. What we need is patience on the road. If we Indians had half the amount of patience that I have seen in American drivers, we would be twice more safe here. First time I was in the US, I was generally stopping trffic by stepping on the road, like a villager in the city for the first time, till my son warned me against it and then I realised that if a padestrian steped from the berm onto the road the traffic on that side stopped totally. No shouting, no honking horns. And the vehicles would wait for the padestrian to get off the road, right or wrong. No one cris-crossed, and even on an unlighted crossing they would follow the rule of stopping, looking around and then moving on their turn if other vehicles were waiting before them. What discipline. I have been driving on Indian roads for the last over 40 years but I could not drive in the US mainly because of the road discipline there. You just cant make a mistake. Does not mean that they dont have people like us. Very few.
And it is generally the educated drivers who are in a hurry and dont give a damn to fellow drivers. Truckers, who are less educated, are comparatively better disciplined than others.
So I hope we the educated ones would try and discipline ourselves first and stop breaking rules. As with the new vehicles, the mistake tolerence has reduced considerably.

I agree with you in totality, Sir. But the problem here is that nobody wants to be the change agent, be it me or any person.

I had a recent memory of fighting spirit. I had gone to a sweet(jalebi) shop in my hometown with my paternal uncle.When I asked the rates, he told rates are decided by two system, one for the piece way & other for the weight way.We chose the later one, but then he rather than using the weighing machine, used his sense of accuracy for theweighing purpose.My uncle retorted, but here I was a bit lenient to the shop owner as it was the best shop for the sweet(Jalebi).
Later when we were walking down the lane to return to home, my uncle ordered me to get the weight checked. I unwillingly followed the order.And my Uncle was right.The quantity was not accurate but there was a wide gap. He told me to immediately return to the shop for the issue. I again unwillingly followed him & the things were sorted out.
Later on we were discussing the issue at home in front of my father, (who has recently been appointed as University head for Department Of Mathematics), told me that you should fight the system in such a way, otherwise you have no authority to blame a system.

yes, we, the people in the system have to get it smoothen.