India / Motorcycle Ride with Kids not easy now, Govt Issue New Safety Guideline

New Delhi: If you also travel by motorcycle with your children, then this news is important for you. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a draft of new rules for carrying children on motorcycles. According to these rules related to safety provisions, new rules are coming for children below 4 years of age to travel on bikes.

Gadkari tweeted the information

Giving information about this draft issued by the ministry, Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted that the ministry has issued new safety guidelines for carrying children below the age of four years on a motorcycle. Gadkari has spoken of using safety equipment to attach the child with the driver of the bike. Also, apart from the rules for mandatory wearing of crash helmets by children, it has also been told that the speed of a motorcycle carrying a child of 4 years should not exceed 40 kilometers per hour.

Several recommendations have been made in the new draft rule issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. In accordance with these recommendations, safety equipment shall be used to attach children below the age of four years to a motorcyclist. The driver shall ensure that the child between the ages of 9 months to 4 years, seated behind him, is wearing his crash helmet that fits over his head. Also, the helmet should be made as per the norms prescribed under the ISI Act 2016.

The draft states that motorcyclists shall ensure that a 'safety harness' is used to keep children below the age of four with them. A safety harness is a jacket worn by a child that can be modified in size. The straps attached to that safety jacket are fitted in such a way that the driver can also attach it to his shoulders.

What should be the speed of the bike?

Recommending the new draft rule, it has also been said that the speed of a motorcycle carrying a child up to the age of four years should not exceed 40 kilometers per hour. Section 129 of the Motor Vehicle Act has already been amended on behalf of the government by the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019.