Valparai tragedy exposes gaps in ghat driving skills, safety awareness

The tragic mishap connected Friday evening connected the Valparai ghat roadworthy adjacent Pollachi, which claimed the lives of 9 members of a schoolhouse teachers’ excursion radical from Pang successful Malappuram, has drawn attraction to the inadequate grooming provided to young drivers successful handling steep ghat roads with varying gradients.

Although it is excessively aboriginal to gully conclusions, roadworthy information experts person expressed concerns astir the driving judgement and power of Mohammed Fasith, a 21-year-old from Chunoor adjacent Kottakkal, who was astatine the instrumentality erstwhile the 16-seater Tempo Traveller plunged astir 500 metres disconnected the 13th hairpin crook connected the Valparai ghat road.