Unnecessary distraction: Drivers should keep both hands on the steering wheel and prevent themselves from using their phone while on the road. (Photo : Getty Images)
Put down the keys.
For 36 people, traveling will either mean--if they are not taking public transportation--occupying the passenger seat or taking the backseat--forever.
Thirty-six people made it on the list of the Shanghai police department who will be permanently banned from driving, reported Shanghai Daily.
With permission from the local court, the police department publicly released the names of the drivers but refrained from giving out full information about their individual cases.
Still, the police gave a hint: their recklessness as drivers resulted in someone’s death.
The police added that 30 of them fled the scene of the accident and the remaining six were found guilty of drunk driving.
The country has seen, specifically through actual video recordings posted on the Internet, many cases of drivers committing dreadful acts.
There were drivers caught on video running over for several times the person they hit in an apparent attempt to ensure that the person won’t be able to press charges, according to news.com.au.
The news outlet also reported that some drivers would say that they thought they only collided with a plastic bag filled with garbage.
How cruel is that?
When Geng Guizhi, an instructor at Beijing Gongjiao Driving School, noticed the impatience growing among the students who were falling in a line, he told them “to remain calm and patient” and simply consider the incident similar to getting stuck in traffic, according to CNN.
A calm driver can remain focused and alert.
More than 200,000 people, an estimate by the World Health Organization, die in the country every year due to accidents on the road, reported CNN.
The Ministry of Public Security launched a road safety campaign in Aug. 2013.
Through the campaign, police officers apprehended 14,280 drivers for speeding, received 13,782 cases of vehicle overloading, and caught 760 drivers who were having more than the allowed number of passengers, reported China Daily.
For reckless drivers and law-breaking motorists, they should straighten up or choose a life where they will find themselves in the passenger seat or behind bars.
