Telangana: Drive safely, say kin of accident victims

Hyderabad: Babaiah, a trader who wanted to see his son as a police officer is in shock after the death of his 14-year-old son in an accident in Mansoorabad in 2015. He said that initially many people told him that he would get compensation from the government but so far nothing has happened. B. Chitti, a mother of three, who lost her husband in an accident, said the negligence of a driver killed her husband. The families of around 20 persons who were killed in accidents in Rachakonda participated in the programme.

Srikanth was studying in Class IX at a school at Mansoorabad. During the summer vacation of 2015 he decided to do a part time job and support his family and his academics. His father said he was happy when his son said he wanted to make money for his studies. A school in Mansoorabad hired Srikanth for distributing leaflets. As the area was too big, they gave him a bike. Though he did not know driving he took the bike. He hit a tipper and died on the spot.

“A case was registered and people spoke of insurance. Later, it all became an eye wash. We are tired of running for the insurance,” Babaiah said. Chitti, a resident of Kandukur, said her husband Sreenu and his friend Ramulu were going to Hyderabad, but the careless driver of a Bolero who was on the wrong side hit their bike killing her husband and his friend. The driver also died on the spot. “If the Bolero driver had followed rules, the accident would not have occurred. It destroyed his family and two other families,” she said, making an appeal to drive carefully.

I cry everyday for my son: Mohan

Actor turned politician Andole MLA Babu Mohan said that parents whose children are killed in accidents suffer huge trauma. He said that whenever he attends a function involving youth, he is reminded of his son who was killed in an accident. P. Pavan Kumar, the eldest son of the then labour minister Babu Mohan, died when his bike hit a road divider near Jubilee Hills check post in 2003.

“We made millions laugh, but because of the accident I am crying in the dark everyday. No parent should suffer this, and no child should put parents in this kind of pain,” Babu Mohan said with tears rolling down his eyes. He said that children should remember their parents always. “You should remember that your parents can be happy only if you are alive,” he said. Veteran actor Kota Srinivasa Rao, whose son K. Prasad was killed in an accident in 2010 when his bike came under a van, said that today’s youth was not ready to listen to counsel. “This is an appeal to youth to listen to their elders," he said.