West Bengal to tackle rash driving on national and state highways

It took a major road accident to wake up the authorities from slumber with regard rash driving on the highways - both state and national. The accident involved chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee.
He was seriously injured in a road accident in Singur and, as a result, the state government has decided to intensify road safety measures on national and state highways to bring down the road accident rate.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 20 October 2016.

A number of decisions have been taken in the meeting. One of these is that speed radars will be installed on NH 2, NH 6 and state highways to monitor speeds of all vehicles. The state PWD and transport department in collaboration with national highway authority will identify accident-prone areas on the highways and CCTV cameras will be installed to monitor all traffic.
In addition, more checkposts will come up on the highways to check documents of vehicles and vigilance at the check posts will be intensified.
Also, more breath analyzers will be given to district police officers to check whether the drivers are plying vehicles in an inebriated state and adequate lights will be installed at accident prone areas.


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