Gone are the days when students were losing sleep on what to wear on their school farewell. Nowadays, high schools want to express their freedom on the road by arriving in flashy cars and performing dangerous stunts. Is this a case of rebel without a case for social media? Well, we can’t really answer that, but recently many cities have seen students making a dramatic entrance for their school farewell parties with dangerous and unsafe driving.
Farewell party: Dangerous mix of cars and stunts
School farewell parties have now become a concoction of reckless driving and dangerous stunts. Gone are the days when there were heartfelt goodbyes, now students are sitting on the window panels, standing out of the car sunroof and even performing illegal manoeuvres on the road. To make matters worse, a group of students decided to drive in on a tractor. Meanwhile, in Madhya Pradesh, three students were sitting on the front windshield of a moving car and once the vehicle turned, all three lost their balance and fell to the street.
Two-wheel riders are raising the stakes by not wearing helmets, zigzagging dangerously in traffic and losing control. One might think these students are auditioning for the next Fast & Furious movie, but sadly, this is on the streets of India.
Who is responsible for this behaviour?
The million-dollar question is who is responsible for all these antics? How are these students getting access to all these vehicles and shouldn’t the parents be accountable for all this? While some complaints have been filed, and police have taken action, all this chaos poses a threat to everyone on the street.
In Surat, police acted swiftly when a group of students were caused inconvenience by blocking a public road with their luxury cars. 20 cars were seized and 11 people were summoned after this so-called car rally blocked the road. Even though the school and the parents were quick to wash their hands off this incident by stating that it was not organized by the education institute and the cars were taken out of the home without their knowledge. We can only say that safety is a priority and someone has to be accountable to this before a serious incident takes place.
