To curtail road accidents and deaths in road accidents by 50 percent, instructions are issued by Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety constituted by Supreme Court and for fulfilment of these instructions based on accidents in the past three years (2017-18-19), 16 black spots(Extremely Prone Accident Zones) have been identified and to review, these spots were visited by senior police official on Tuesday.
After the discussion of these black spots ADG Police Training and Research Institute, State Police Headquarters DC Sagar with the senior officers spots were visited by the team of senior officers.
In the meeting and reviewing the spot Deputy Inspector General of Police, Bhopal, Irshad Wali, ASP Sandeep Dixit, DSP Traffic, Sushil Tiwari, Govind Bihari Rawat, Manoj Sharma and officials of concerned government departments PWD and Municipal Corporation officials were present.
At the meeting, Additional Superintendent of Police Sandeep Dixit gave the presentation of the former status of 16 black spots identified in district Bhopal and the changed black spots during the rectification process. With the help of various government departments, most of the black spots identified in the district Bhopal are near completion for rectification.
As a result, there has been a decrease of 39 percent in road accidents, 40 percent of injury cases and 13.40 percent in the deaths of September 2020 in Bhopal district as compared to the previous year.
A black spot is a stretch of 500 metres in which five serious accidents or 10 road accident deaths have occurred in the past three years.