There’s nothing like people hitting the streets to do good for their fellow man.
According to The Indian Express, in the past decade, over one million people in India have been killed in road accidents. Every hour according to statistics, 15 people die, and 20 children under the age of 14 perish every day in road accidents.
So a group of hijras, or transexuals or transgenders, took to the streets to put some common sense into motorists on India’s busy roads whose well-known belligerence over road safety makes them look more like crash test dummies than drivers.
Calling themselves The Seatbelt Crew, the group dressed up as air stewardesses put up an impromptu safety demonstration in the middle of the street. According to their Twitter page, the group is “determined to get Indian motorists to wear their seat belts”. Nothing nobler and more useful, we reckon.
“If you’re going to drive like a pilot, then you should know some things,” says a member of The Seatbelt Crew over a loudhailer.
“Your car doesn’t have an oxygen mask. Under your sear you won’t find a life jacket. But you do have a seatbelt. So why aren’t you wearing it, honey? You want me to teach you?”
There was a sense of irony as motorists, driving without their safety belts fastened, laughed along with The Seatbelt Crew.
There’s so much awesome in this, we hope their public service announcement gets into motorists’ heads.
