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Hundreds of persons who arrived for their driving tests astatine the Dr. Babu Jagjivan Ram driving trial way successful Nagole connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) greeting recovered themselves seated for an unexpected lesson, a archetypal assistance and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) consciousness programme aimed astatine redeeming lives connected the road. Participants watched arsenic doctors demonstrated archetypal assistance and CPR connected human-shaped mannequins, intimately observing each measurement and past performed the life-saving procedure.
The initiative, organised by the Nagole Regional Transport Authority (RTA) successful collaboration with Kamineni Hospitals, is portion of the 37th National Road Safety Month being observed from January 1 to January 31, 2026. The objective, officials said, is to equip mean citizens with basal life-saving skills that could beryllium important successful the minutes pursuing a roadworthy accident.
According to Sheethal, Motor Vehicles Inspector with the Nagole RTA, what was earlier a week-long consciousness thrust has present been expanded into a month-long run successful effect to the rising fig of roadworthy accidents. “Road accidents proceed to beryllium a large concern. The thought is to guarantee that astatine slightest immoderate radical astatine mishap sites knows basal archetypal assistance and CPR, truthful that lives tin beryllium saved earlier aesculapian assistance arrives,” she said.
6,499 roadworthy mishap deaths successful 2025
Telangana recorded astir 6,499 deaths owed to roadworthy accidents successful 2025, with the toll expanding each year. Citing the road mishap successful Mokila connected Thursday morning, successful which 4 students were killed and different was critically injured, Joint Transport Commissioner of Telangana, C. Ramesh, appealed to citizens to measurement successful to assistance mishap victims and amended roadworthy safety.
Many of those attending the programme connected Thursday were young men and women driving trial candidates. While immoderate were asked to enactment earlier their test, others were told to articulation aft completing it. “I americium attending this for the archetypal time. I came successful the greeting and aft my driving test, I was told to beryllium for the programme and that my documents would beryllium handed implicit later,” said 1 attendee, clutching his rolled-up papers, a show repeated crossed the venue.
Officials said the driving tests were temporarily paused truthful that much candidates instrumentality portion successful the consciousness session. The waiting country was converted into a makeshift pavilion, implicit with an LED surface displaying instructions, portion CPR and archetypal assistance demonstrations were conducted extracurricular utilizing mannequins.
People assisting mishap unfortunate tin take whether to beryllium eyewitness
Assistant Motor Vehicles Inspector Sai Karthik addressed a communal fearfulness among citizens — the hesitation to assistance mishap victims owed to ineligible concerns. “Anyone assisting an mishap unfortunate has the close to take whether they privation to beryllium an eyewitness oregon not. They tin assistance and inactive support their idiosyncratic details confidential. If they bash take to beryllium eyewitnesses, the instrumentality mandates that they beryllium treated with respect and adjacent rewarded,” helium explained.
Officials besides cautioned the nationalist astir what they described arsenic ‘seasonal contributors’ to roadworthy accidents. Fog during aboriginal mornings and the beingness of Chinese manja connected roads these days were cited arsenic increasing hazards that proceed to compromise roadworthy safety.
