New plan to reduce fatal road accidents

Thiruvananthapuram | Sunday | 18th February, 2018

Summary:

The Subhayatra Traffic Safety Action Plan 2018 envisages reduction in road accidents and adherence to road discipline through the combined efforts of the Kerala Police and the Motor Vehicle Department. more-inThe government has chalked out an action plan to reduce road accidents in the State by 10% this year and by 25% over the next three years. The police have been asked to concentrate on roads other than NHs and SHs that witnessed more road accidents to achieve the target set this year. Road accidents involving motorcycles, KSRTC and private buses, mini-buses and private cars on roads other than National Highways (NH) and State Highways (SH) increased substantially in 2017, forcing law enforcers to make the rules stringent. Accidents during night and drunk driving cases too went up..