Stunt Bikers are dangerous not only to their own lives but also to community

SHAKEELA ANDRABI

SRINAGAR: Despite the Srinagar traffic police is issuing many advisories to keep young boys and girls from bike stunts, many youngsters are still performing stunts on Srinagar’s busiest roads, but this time with more precision.
They are using all the bikes without HSRP or Number plates so that they can manage to escape from cam eye, CCTV and video shooting of people, beyond this nobody can trace them or get the identity of these boys who they are and what are they doing on roads.
Recently some incidents related to stunts by bikers occurred in Srinagar. After the incidents there is a demand for an end to such actions on the public roads. Traffic Police Department launched a drive against the youth indulging in stunts.
Other sections of society must also help in solving the problem. The parents, providing motorcycles or bikes to their young sons, must strictly tell them not to use those for stunts on public roads. With stunts, the youngsters are not only endangering their own lives but also the lives of other people on roads. A number of accidents have occurred since past in which some motor bikers have lost their lives or were injured while doing stunts. Some other people too have been the victim of these stunt bikers’ actions.
“There is nothing wrong using motorcycles for the safe travel and it is needed also. But using the two wheelers for stunts is dangerous and has been proving fatal. For keeping their children safe, it is the responsibility of the parents to tell them not to indulge in such deadly. If they do not listen, the bike facility to them should be withdrawn,” said Road transport officials.
“If proper counselling is done at homes and at colleges, and necessary awareness created, most stunt bikers hopefully will give up what they are doing. There is not a large number of stunt bikers in Srinagar, but the number is increasing and it is the cause of concern. Stunts on public roads is a serious problem and needs to be tackled strictly. Presence of such groups on the roads sometimes leads to other crimes including group fights and harassment of others,” he added.
“Not only the problem of stunt bikers has to be solved, the overall travel must be made safe and secure on roads in Srinagar. For that the traffic rules must be strictly implemented. Some people, driving four wheelers and three wheelers, or those riding two wheelers keep on violating the rules, leading to accidents,” a Srinagar resident said.