Collector calls for action to reduce road accidents in Chittoor, focusing on national highways

District Collector Sumit Kumar connected Friday (December, 12, 2025) instructed each enactment departments to enactment successful a coordinated mode to curb roadworthy accidents, peculiarly on nationalist highways passing done the territory towards Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

The Collector was reviewing roadworthy information measures astatine the District Road Safety Committee (DRSC) gathering held astatine the Collectorate present nether the supervision of the Transport Department.

The Collector instructed the District Coordinator of Health Services (DCHS) and District Medical and Health Officer (DM&HO) to hole an integrated exigency effect database for each identified achromatic spots on NH-140, NH-69, and NH-42.

“The database should see the availability of doctors astatine adjacent wellness centres, interaction numbers, humor radical stocks, ambulances and different captious aesculapian resources,” Mr. Sumit Kumar said, adding that the accusation indispensable beryllium instantly disposable to the Police and Revenue Departments to guarantee quicker aesculapian involution for victims successful lawsuit of immoderate accident.

Pointing to the precocious accident-prone zones, the Collector asked NHAI (National Highways Authority of India ) and R&B officials to instrumentality up rectification works without delay. Safety signboards, star blinkers, roadworthy markings, rumble strips, reflective indicators and capable lighting indispensable beryllium installed connected each susceptible locations. Police person been asked to show advancement and taxable a elaborate presumption study earlier the adjacent DRSC meeting.

At cardinal locations specified arsenic CMC Junction, the Collector flagged issues including a damaged star blinker, breached information drums, deficiency of lighting and inadequate markings. He instructed NHAI to reconstruct each installations and fortify information infrastructure.

Highlighting the rising fig of two-wheeler accidents, the Collector instructed departments to intensify helmet-awareness campaigns successful schools, inferior colleges, ITIs and polytechnic institutions.

Officials from Transport, NHAI, R&B, RTC, Panchayat Raj and the Health Department participated successful the meeting.