Road accidents are a disgusting form of death and it gets even more worse when nobody comes to help you. People of today’s world have all the time to talk about humanity and courage but hardly have any balls to preach on what they say. In India, the number of people who speak about humanity is as massive as anything else but the number of people who actually preach what they say is quite negligible.
Candle marches followed the insane and inhuman Delhi Rape Case a few years back but neither rapes stopped neither has the number of people who help others increased. Years have passed but the scenario still remains the same. No matter what is happening around, people just don’t bat an eye to it and instead are happy to remain mere spectators. They just standby, watch and recite what they saw to their friends but none bother to come up and help.
Humanity was put to shame again recently when a policeman died after their jeep met with an accident and not a single soul came up to help. The incident took place in Mysuru when two policemen heading towards Suttur collided with a bike and a Bus. The two policemen were travelling in a jeep which first collided with a bike and in a bid to save the biker went on to hit a state transport bus. The driver, Constable Lakshman, died on the spot and the other policeman, inspector Mahesh Kumar, was injured severely and kept bleeding heavily inside the jeep. He sustained severe head injuries and momemts later succumbed to them.
This terrifying accident managed to gather a crowd but failed to find a single human in it. People kept staring at the broken pieces of the ill fated jeep but did not step up to check the two human bodies lying inside it. A life could have been saved had any one person from that crowd of spectators just checked whether the person lying inside the jeep is dead or alive.
Almost half an hour later, police arrived and took the inspector to a nearby hospital where he breathed his last. The SP of Mysuru in an interview said, “We arrived at the spot some 25 minutes after the accident, and took Mahesh Kumar to a nearby private hospital. He succumbed to his injuries within minutes. We have conducted several awareness programmes even in this area, but people don’t come forward to help because they don’t want to get entangled in a police case.”
What we need to understand is the fact that nothing is more Important than saving a human life. I haven’t seen any office punishing their employee who stopped on his way to office to help a man who met with an accident. Understanding that fact will only help us make our world a better place to live in.