The Transport Department is set to make helmets for pillion riders compulsory from November. According to a report in The New Indian Express, follows the ruling of the Supreme Court the Transport Department has issued a draft notification on this. Previously, the rule for making helmets mandatory for pillion riders was to come into effect in September.

From January to May 2015, 142 persons including drivers and pillion riders were killed and 830 persons suffered serious injuries in road accidents in Bengaluru.

Road accidents often result in fatalities when riders and pillion riders don’t wear helmets. The recent death of young techie Stuti Omprakash, who died while riding pillion, in Bengaluru is testimony to this.

The Commissioner for Transport and Road Safety announced that the last date for citizens within the city corporation limits to file objections to the draft notification was September 27 and for those from other parts of the state was October 17.