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Andhra Pradesh has witnessed respective large fatal roadworthy accidents successful 2025, prompting the authorities to instrumentality stringent measures to guarantee information on national and authorities highways.
Preliminary information from the authorities suggest that much than 8,200 fatal accidents and 10,600 non-fatal accidents were reported across Andhra Pradesh by the end of November.
At the aforesaid time, the statistic disposable with National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) rise concerns. Andhra Pradesh registered 17,039 deaths successful 2023 owed to roadworthy accidents erstwhile compared to 16,693 deaths successful 2022, with an summation of astir 2%.
For instance, immoderate fatal accidents specified arsenic the Kurnool calamity successful which 20 people—19 passengers and a motorcycle rider— died aft a backstage autobus went up successful flames connected the nationalist road successful October.
In a precise caller accident, 5 engineering students died near Chilakaluripet town of Palnadu district, aft their car rammed into a motortruck illegally parked connected the nationalist highway.
According to the probe studies and Parliamentary debates connected prevention of roadworthy accidents, the short-term measures similar proviso of roadworthy markings, signage, clang barriers, raised pavement markers, delineators, closure of median openings, postulation calming measures, footpaths and pedestrian crossings successful built-up areas, should be provided astatine identified hotspots connected nationalist and authorities highways for reducing the roadworthy accidents.
Further, semipermanent rectification measures involving betterment of roadworthy geometrics, junction improvements, spot widening of carriageway, ft over-bridges, operation of underpasses oregon overpasses should beryllium provided to guarantee the information of the roadusers.
In a reappraisal gathering recently, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu asked each the authorities departments acrophobic to guarantee preventive measures against roadworthy accidenrts.
As determination are antithetic reasons for assorted accidents, the policymakers should travel up with innovative ideas, considering each stakeholders similar police, roads and transportation, nationalist road authorization of India and others to assistance forestall specified fatalities.
The authorities has formed an adept radical connected the issue.
