Police Arranges Traffic Awareness Campaign At Bahawalpur

The city mobile education unit teams Tuesday arranged traffic awareness campaign with the aim to make motorists and pedestrians aware of traffic rules on different areas of the city on the direction of Gohar Mushtaq Bhutta Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Punjab Highway Patrol Bahawalpur Region.

BAHAWALPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Dec, 2018 ) :The city mobile education unit teams Tuesday arranged traffic awareness campaign with the aim to make motorists and pedestrians aware of traffic rules on different areas of the city on the direction of Gohar Mushtaq Bhutta Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Punjab Highway Patrol Bahawalpur Region.

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

He urged the drivers for use of seat belts and briefed the people about traffic signals and traffic laws.

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.