The New Year skies turned dark for at least three families who lost young loved ones in an accident in the city on Wednesday morning. The three, two women and a man, were riding triple seat on a two-wheeler early morning. They were allegedly riding at speed and the scooter jumped a divider and dashed into a heavy vehicle. The three were not wearing helmets.

There are some takeaways from this huge tragedy. Speeding is a death trap, there is no other way one can put it. The brutal truth is that early hours, relatively emptier streets is not an invitation to open throttle. Proceed with the same amount of caution you would during regular hours, you must always be slow enough to control the vehicle. When one is fast one may be deceived into thinking that you can control the vehicle, but that can be fatal overconfidence.