Hyderabad: Road safety measures taken up by the Hyderabad traffic police have led to a reduction in the number of road accidents in October. There were 22 deaths last month, compared to 27 in October last year.
The main reason for this was said to be the removal of about 80 black spots that were identified based on an analysis of accident data of 2017.
As part of this, the traffic police in co-ordination with the GHMC straightened out road curves and provided central medians at curves. It placed road safety signages at accident-prone areas and pedestrian’s crossings and providing railings at central medians to prevent random pedestrian crossing.
The traffic police found that most of the fatal accidents occurred due to rash and negligent driving, followed by speeding, the rider causing the accident, wrong-side driving and cell phone driving.
The traffic police also conducted special drives against traffic rule violations which endanger the lives of commuters, such as drunk drving, wrong-side driving, triple riding, minor driving and speeding, among others.
The traffic police is focusing on creating the awareness and educating commuters and youngters.
