How many times you have gone through the petrifying experience of going nearly blind after looking at the high-beam headlights of oncoming vehicles while driving in the night? Chances are that there could be countless such occasions.
No wonder, complaints in this regard are one of the commonest received by the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD).
Actor Unni Mukundan has volunteered to help the department deal with the menace posed by vehicles sporting auxiliary and LED lights.
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Shortly, the actor would be seen in lead role in a one-minute-long road safety awareness film exhorting drivers to always dim lights for other motorists’ safety and avoid use of high-beam lights, especially in cities.
The department’s another road safety awareness short film featuring actor Dulquer Salmaan asking two-wheeler riders to wear helmets had been well received. This prompted the department to come out with a similar short film against the use of high-beam lights during night.
The film, being made by the students of St. Joseph’s College of Communication in Changanassery, Kottayam, is produced by Maruti Suzuki.
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Its shooting is under way at Eloor and Mattancherry. Once finished, the film will be screened on popular television channels, in theatres, at railway stations and bus stands in association with the Public Relations Department of the government.
“The high intensity halogen and LED lights that are used in vehicles may even damage a person’s eyes,” Ernakulam Regional Transport Officer P.H. Sadik Ali told reporters here on Wednesday. Last year, during a four-day campaign alone, the MVD had registered nearly 300 cases for using high-beam lights.