Special drives push wrong-way driving cases to five-year high, BTP plans long-term fix

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Motorists riding without helmets connected Jeevan Bima Nagar Main Road successful Bengaluru, wherever Jeevan Bima Nagar recorded the highest fig of postulation violations successful 2025 connected January 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J.

In the archetypal 3 months of 2026, the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) booked a whopping 1.78 lakh cases of wrong-way driving, the highest fig recorded successful the archetypal 4th implicit the past 5 years, information shows.

The information besides shows that cases booked for wrong-way driving successful the archetypal 4th of 2026 are implicit 58% of those booked successful the full twelvemonth of 2025, which saw 3.03 lakh cases booked. The BTP had booked 1.87 lakh cases of driving against postulation successful 2024, and astir 1.44 lakh successful 2023. However, these cases were overmuch higher successful 2021 and 2022.

Published - April 26, 2026 08:53 p.m. IST

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