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more-inIn 2017, 357 people died and about 1,200 received serious injuries in 336 fatal road accidents in Visakhapatnam district. Though the length of both the ghat roads varies between 60 and 70 km, there are about 20 potent accident-prone zones. Even those roads are ghat roads, as the entire Agency is located on the hill ranges of Eastern Ghats, said Superintendent of Police Rahul Dev Sharma. Of the total deaths, about 120 were in Visakhapatnam Agency and most of the accidents took place on the ghat roads of Araku and Paderu mandals. Also Read Need for safety audit: on Vizag Agency accidentsMost of the roads that cut through the hills are single-track roads in a bad condition..