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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Siliguri Police says 'No Helmet, No Petrol' for two wheelers

In order to ensure that those who ride two-wheelers wear helmets for their own safety and thereby reduce fatalities in accidents the Siliguri Metropolitan Police (SMP) has issued an order to all petrol pumps within the SMP area not to sell fuel to motorcycles, if the riders are not wearing helmets. The orders are applicable for all 36 petrol pumps under SMP.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 11 July 2016.

Consequent to the growing trend of reckless driving, the police feel that it may force the people to wear helmets while using the roads for their own safety. Traffic police prosecutes riders for not wearing the helmets but to make the rule more stringent this decision was taken. Petrol pumps will not refill the tanks of those riders who are without helmets and the police is hopeful that this will bring down the rate of road accidents.
SMP has also asked the petrol pumps owners to install CCTV cameras at the pumps and the police will also conduct surprise check at the pumping stations.


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