Vijai was our classmate. He was very careless fellow, about road safety rules. He used to ride his cycle fast and rash drive. He was restless at traffic signals. He had fallen from his cycle many times. He had also hit people on the road many times.

His father used to scold him. His teachers gave him many warnings, but he did not care. He had hardly paid any attention to any advice. He used to laugh at the boys who used the zebra crossings on road. He used to run across the roads. He used to say proudly, ``Why do you wait for the signal to cross the road? Look at me; I rid my bike very fast. I don’t allow anybody to overtake me. I don’t bother about the safety rules’’.

Ne day, while coming to school, he was riding fast. At one crossing, there was a red signal. He did not stop. He was crossing fast. At the same time from the other direction, a truck came in at a good speed. The truck hit Vijai bicycle. Vijai was thrown on the other side of the road. He got fracture on single his leg and one hand. He had to be kept in hospital for 4 weeks. After the accident, Vijai vowed never to ignore the traffic riles and always travel safely on the road. The accident had taught Vijai a good lesson.

Traffic rules

• We should be very careful on the road
• We should walk on the footpath
• We should look first to our right and then to our left before crossing the road
• We should use the zebra crossing to go across the road
• We should stop ad wait, if the pedestrian light is red
• Always stand in a queue at the bus stop
• We should board and alight from the bus in a queue
• We should move only when the pedestrian light is green
• We should not walk in the middle of the road
• We should not play on the road
• We should not board a moving bus
• We should not put our hands or head out of a moving bus
• We should not get down from a moving bus