The Hindu : Police taking action to prevent road accidents

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Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Southern States

Southern States - Karnataka-Bangalore

Police taking action to prevent road accidents

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore May 20. It takes a gory accident for the traffic police to take action to prevent the recurrence of such mishaps.

This is after the WorldTel Chief Operating Officer, Samir Singh, was killed on the spot when his car collided with a bus on Murphy Road, close to the Ulsoor Lake, late on Saturday night. According to the police, the accident took place inspite of a thick yellow line dividing the road visible even at night. Both vehicles were believed to have been turning a blind corner on the road which is poorly lit in some stretches.

The traffic police swung into action on Monday, putting up a temporary median on the road. This stretch of the road has other blind corners, and some weeks ago, two persons on a bicycle were fatally knocked down by a lorry.

The traffic police are also installing cautionary signs on the road indicating the curve, and speed breakers are to be built "shortly'', according to an officer.

After the fatal accident involving the cyclists, the traffic police sent a report to the BMP asking for speed-breakers and signboards saying Accident Zone to be installed on this stretch of Murphy Road.

The police also suggested building a wall along the border of the road.

The BMP was yet to act on these suggestions, police said.

The reason given was lack of funds. The signboards now being put up had been temporarily brought over from the site of the BDA flyover on Airport Road.

There are several such blind corners and curves both within the City and in the suburbs. Not all of them have cautionary signs or are properly lit at nights.

Surveys have shown that many serious accidents take place at night when drivers tend to overspeed, seeing an apparently empty stretch of road.

Many of the speed-breakers on such roads were removed last year in an attempt to have humps of uniform size. Very few have actually been replaced.

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