Who should be blamed?

It was a quite slow day in the morning, i was checking sales records and inventory position in the system, suddenly few people gathered on the road which is just opposite to my store and there was a completely packed jeep which came to a still. Mob started attacking the driver of the jeep and in few minutes he managed to escaped from the scene, for a while it was difficult to understand what was happening over there?

It took few minutes for me to figure out that it was an accident of a three year old child, who had suffered major head injury. Kid is from a nearby village called "edelli", she had accompanied her mother who is currently hospitalised in the govt hospital at Hunasagi. She came out of the hospital running to join her grandfather who was going to get medicine from the nearby medical store. Within few minutes anyone can stop her, she had become a victim of our careless society.

Completely Packed Jeep

To mention it was neither a drunk and drive case nor rash driving case. Jeep was quite slow, but driver could not see the running girl on his left side of the road, as the bonnet was completely occupied by passengers. I mean" passengers were sitting on the bonnet" and driver was given a small window to look at the road and drive safely.

Since his vision is limited only to the right side, he could not notice a running child on his left side of the vehicle. Left wheel came on the shoulder and created a major injuries on the head, child died on the spot.

Who should be blamed?

• Careless passengers who travel in a completely packed vehicle
• Driver of the vehicle
• Police, as it is their duty to ensure smooth flow of the vehicle, loaded with correct capacity
• KSRTC department which is not providing enough buses to travel

By the end of the day people had forgotten the incident and already started travelling in a fully packed vehicle again to reach their villages. Who has to be held responsible for such careless behaviour on road?

This needs a collective work to create an awareness about safety to the society, but our national media is busy in mangalore pub case and as usual govt officials are incapable of handling such issues. God knows where we will head in the near future?