Today, the City Deputy Commissioner (Traffic), S. Saravanan reported on the rising incidents of underage driving, which is prohibited by the law. He revealed that 350 cases have been filed in 2016 from the month of January to August against teen drivers for using vehicles without license. A fine of Rs. 500 has been levied against the first time violators and the fine will be doubled for the second time. The parents of such teenagers have been warned and advised to abstain their underage children from driving vehicles, until proper license is obtained.
He cited on the accidents caused by underage driving and its fatal consequences. Hence, the teenagers should wait until the age of 18 and obtain proper license and drive the vehicles with maturity and safely, he said.
He also advised the motorists not to fix noisy silencers in their vehicles, as it causes exorbitant pollution and evoked on the meeting the traffic department had organised with the mechanics of the city, to refrain from fixing such noisy silencers.