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Beware
: Scooterists / Motorcyclists
You are Vulnerable on the Road
Do You Know
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Only
one mistake can cause life long grief to you and your family
- Every year you stand a 1
in 500 chance of being hurt in an accident. As a motorcyclist or scooterist,
you stand a 9 to 10 chances of being killed or seriously injured when you
are involved in an accident
- The number of people
killed on the roads every year is alarming. During 1995, about seventy
thousand people were killed in over three lakh fifty thousand
road accidents in the country. Many of the fatal ones involved
motorcyclist / scooterists and pedestrians
- In
an accident, it is always the smaller vehicle that comes out worst. As the
rider of the smallest and least protected motorized vehicle, you are most
vulnerable
- As per statistics most
road accidents deaths involving two-wheelers are directly related to head
injuries. Therefore, helmet is one of the most important items of protection
against the hazards connected with driving on roads
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