Bahawalpur Police Arranges Traffic Awareness Campaign

The city mobile education unit teams on Wednesday arranged traffic awareness campaign with the aim to make motorists and pedestrians aware of traffic rules in different parts of the city on the direction of Sajjad Hussain Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Punjab Highway Patrol Bahawalpur Region

BAHAWALPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Jan, 2019 ) :The city mobile education unit teams on Wednesday arranged traffic awareness campaign with the aim to make motorists and pedestrians aware of traffic rules in different parts of the city on the direction of Sajjad Hussain Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Punjab Highway Patrol Bahawalpur Region.

The team in-charge informed that the purpose of this campaign is to ensure safety for motorcyclists and prevent any road mishap by educating them about the use of helmets and safe road environment.

He said most accidents took place due to negligence, reckless driving and speeding, unfamiliarity with rules, mechanical failures on major thoroughfares, defective traffic engineering, bad road conditions, inadequate pedestrian facilities, encroachments, lengthy court proceedings and a slow response to emergency.

To resolve the issues, he said, the traffic department had decided to adopt concrete measures. The effective and successful policing was impossible without cooperation of media and public, he mentioned.