KARACHI, Jan 29: There are approximately one million registered vehicles on streets of Karachi, but there are only 2,500 traffic cops to manage them.

According to reports, around 7,000 people die in accidents countrywide each year. Almost one tenth of them are killed on the streets of Karachi and more than a quarter of them are young people.

Governor Mohammedmian Soomro will inaugurate a unique year-long Karavan Karachi road sense programme for school-children at the PSO House on Jan 30.

The programme is open to all schools of the city and the participants will be given certificates and other prizes.

The necessity for a road safety programme arose because of an alarming rise in the number of fatal accidents involving young people.

Karavan Karachi has been collaborating with the PSO and the traffic police in conducting high profile monthly events and exhibition of posters as well as traffic safety workshops are conducted in a government and private schools.—APP