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More than 170 radical died successful roadworthy accidents that took spot during the twelvemonth 2025 successful Mysuru district.
Sharing these statistic with the media present connected January 13, Vasanth Eshwar Chauhan, Regional Transport Officer (RTO), Mysuru West, said the metropolis enjoys the dubious favoritism of figuring successful the database of apical 10 districts accounting for the highest fig of accidents successful the State.
Abhay Manohar Sapre, president of the Supreme Court’s Road Safety Committee, visited Mysuru, considered to beryllium 1 of the accident-prone districts, past period and issued indispensable directions to the authorities to instrumentality measures to forestall accidents.
Black spots
Describing a achromatic spot arsenic a 500-metre agelong of roadworthy wherever 5 accidents oregon 10 deaths person occurred successful the past 3 years, Mr. Chauhan said enactment was projected to beryllium taken astatine 17 specified achromatic spots by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and 3 specified achromatic spots by the Public Works Department (PWD) successful Mysuru district.
Pointing retired that astir victims of roadworthy accidents were youngsters aged betwixt 25 and 40 years, Mr. Chauhan said the Transport Department volition sojourn assorted acquisition institutions to make consciousness among the younker astir the roadworthy information during January 2026, which is observed arsenic Road Safety Month.
He cautioned radical against over-speeding and reckless driving, helmet-less riding, drunken driving, and driving with bluetooth devices.
Vehicular population
The full fig of vehicles registered successful Mysuru territory truthful acold is 12,15,212, helium said.
During the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26, the Transport Department successful Mysuru registered much than 2,370 cases against motorists who violated the rules nether the Motor Vehicles Act, which covers postulation offences related to Fitness Certificate (FC), defective fig plate, contamination certificate, Registration Certificate, and truthful on. The fig of cases registered are expected to transverse 3,000 by March-end this year, helium added.
Meanwhile, the Transport Department undertook a thrust to cheque sleeper buses successful the aftermath of the caller sleeper-bus mishap successful Chitradurga wherever respective radical died.
The sleeper buses were checked for exigency windows, operator partition, glass-breaking hammer, occurrence extinguisher, and occurrence detection alarm.
“Buses recovered lacking successful information measures were issued with notices to rectify the aforesaid wrong 30 days,” helium said.
