Highway To Death: Time To Bring Back The High Fine Law?
The driver of a school bus, openly flouting traffic norms, was driving on the wrong side of the Delhi-Meerut expressway when he rammed head-on into a car, which was on the right side of the road. Six of the eight occupants in the car are now dead. Meanwhile, the bus driver's violation was caught on multiple CCTV cameras, but he was not fined or stopped. This accident took place in the Ghaziabad area, where fines issued for wrong-side driving in the first two months of 2023 alone made up 50% of all traffic violation fines issued in 2022. The question is - is it time to bring back the high fine law in order to prevent accidents like these?
