Tyre Killers Ahead: Don't Dare To Drive Wrong Side!

One of the easiest tasks in India is to find an unethical rider/driver on the road. Get on to the road and within a fraction of a second, you can spot many such immoral riders/drivers breaking the traffic rules at their ease. And, if you don’t find one, then there must be a traffic controller nearby keeping an eye on the traffic scene. However, still some notorious hooligans try to break the traffic rules, with most common being driving on the wrong side of the road.

Driving on the wrong side of the road is one of the common grounds of brutal accidents in the country, with several even losing their lives. Hence, to control this wild menace a solution has emerged in the form of ‘Tyre Killers’. Yes! They literally kill tyres by tearing them apart. In Pune district’s Amanora Park Town area, the Tyre killers have been installed.

So, how do the tyre killers work? Tyre killers are basically a broad full-metal strip, just like the commonly seen black-yellow hard plastic speed breakers on the road, which performs as a speed breaker for the person riding/driving on the right side. Moreover, on the other/left side, it gets metal spikes, which means that if a rider/driver is approaching from the wrong side of the road it will result in the ripping apart of the tyre.

Vehicle people usually don’t pay heed to the traffic safety rules, and in order to save few minutes and some drops of fuel agree upon risking their lives. The tyre killer initiative seems like an effective measure to counter such ‘carefree’ drivers in India, who not only threat others’ lives but also there’s.

With 400 deaths each day and 1,50,000 people being killed every year owing to road accidents, across the globe India is the country with highest deaths due to road accidents. Majority of these accidents occur due to a driver not paying attention to traffic rules. At the time when the road infrastructure and connectivity are bettering in the country, we expect our government to take a note of safety measures too by installing these tyre killers at accident-prone crossroads in the country.