How could a nation be so indifferent to huge casualties on roads and highways?

The government’s relevant authorities have miserably failed to bring the road traffic all across the country under a system of disciplined control. Only an insensitive nation like ours can be so indifferent to the increasing number of deaths on the roads that mostly arise from negligence and absence of enforcement of traffic rules.
Don’t our relevant administrative and law enforcement officials visit the developed nations on study tours and see how in these places traffic movements are maintained with the smallest number of accidents and fatalities? They do. They also know what to do to bring improvement on the roads and highways. But the truth is they do not work, they do not find it their duty to serve the public on the field. Their attitude seems to be that everything would be automatically solved on the road. But that is not to be. The term ‘service’ is perhaps not in their way of life though they are in the government to serve the nation.
Had that not been true, the National Road Safety Day was not observed yesterday with revelation from the Road Safety Foundation that at least 5,043 people were killed in 4,225 road accidents in the first nine months of the current year? Compared to the total number of deaths at 6,284 from 5,371 accidents, this year both the number of deaths and accidents are rising in fact.
Why? Experts tell us this rise is due to the increased presence of locally produced nosimons, korimons, battery-run easy bikes as well as an increasing number of motorbikes on the roads and highways. According to reports yesterday, motorbikes account for 37.78 per cent deaths and indigenous three wheelers account for 21.71 per cent deaths.
The government is spending huge money-much of which wasted or looted through corruption though-to expand the highways and make them modern, but the picture of the same messy traffic is everywhere. If the indigenous human haulers are the real problems on the highways, could not their movement on the highways be controlled by allotting dedicated lanes for them? Or couldn’t these three wheelers be straightway removed from the highways?
Since the government is failing to provide employment for a huge number of people, the more practical solution is creating dedicated lanes for these haulers and motorbikes with strict enforcement of traffic rules and disciplines. But this practical knowledge of maintaining smooth and safe traffic is not being implemented on the roads and highways for the absence of which we are witnessing an ever-increasing number of deaths from accidents.
The National Road Safety Day was observed yesterday under the theme “Let’s abide by traffic rules, return home safe and sound”. Yes, there is a crying need to educate people about the necessity of following traffic rules on the roads and highways, but if traffic rules cannot be forced upon people with measures of punishment, messy traffic everywhere cannot be brought under a disciplined system that will drastically reduce both the number of accidents and fatalities.