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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Wednesday asked officials to behaviour third-party audits of each roadworthy mishap reported successful the State to precisely place whether the origin lies successful conveyance defects, negligence of driver, oregon roadworthy engineering faults.
Chairing the Road Safety Council gathering astatine the Secretariat, Mr. Naidu said that specified elaborate audits were indispensable to trim the fig of accidents and fatalities.
Reviewing the statistics, the Chief Minister said 15,462 roadworthy accidents person been reported this twelvemonth truthful far, claiming 6,433 lives, placing Andhra Pradesh successful the 8th presumption among States successful India successful accident-related deaths.
Calling the concern alarming, helium stressed the urgent request for strict enforcement of roadworthy information protocols and velocity regulations.
Mr. Naidu directed that velocity governors beryllium made mandatory successful each transport vehicles, saying that the authorities is considering extending the regularisation to non-transport vehicles arsenic well.
He instructed the officials to instal CCTV cameras each 500 metres connected nationalist and State highways, integrated with RTGS, on with the constitution of a dedicated vehicle-tracking power room.
“Despite repeated warnings, if vehicles overspeed, they volition beryllium seized,” helium warned, giving departments 3 months to instrumentality speed-control measures.
The officials informed the Chief Minister that 79% of the full accidents were caused by overspeeding, 3% owed to wrong-side driving, and 1% each owing to intoxicant and mobile telephone usage, portion 53% of casualties progressive self-accidents by two-wheelers and cars. They said that 134 illegally modified all-India tourer buses person been seized.
Mr. Naidu ordered the correction of 680 accident-prone achromatic spots, the installation of clang barriers, betterment of pedestrian facilities, and roadworthy markings.
He insisted connected enactment against amerciable conveyance alterations, particularly unauthorised sleeper autobus conversions. He directed the integration of 108 and road ambulance services for faster aesculapian effect and encouraged enactment for Good Samaritans aiding mishap victims.
Road Safety Day
The Chief Minister announced that the 3rd Sunday of November volition beryllium observed arsenic Road Safety Day and called for wide consciousness campaigns with the information from celebrities and nationalist representatives.
Transport Minister Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy, DGP Harish Kumar Gupta, and elder officials from aggregate departments attended the meeting.
