Jyoti Gupta, who lost her husband Pankaj Gupta and her three-year-old daughter when a bus ran over them in April in Gurgaon, today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention on introduction of a comprehensive national road safety law.
In a letter to Modi, Gupta said that the only law governing road safety in India, the Motor Vehicles Act 1988, was not effective.
She demanded introduction of a law that includes; protection for children, pedestrians and cyclists during commuting; increased enforcement, mandatory road safety education and a transparent and efficient process for getting a driving license.
The tragic incident of her husband and daughter was not an isolated one and every four minutes India loses one person to road accidents.
In the past decade, over one million people have been killed in road accidents in India and over five million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled.
Delhi alone witnessed 1,866 number of deaths due to road accidents in 2012, she mentioned in her letter.
She lost her husband and her daughter after a Haryana roadways bus ran over them when they were waiting for the school bus just outside their residential apartment in Gurgaon in April this year.
